Table 1

Clinical practice indicators used in the strategy of care for normal births, according to whether the mother was a candidate for a normal birth

	Pregnant women—candidates for a normal birth
	Yes		No		Total		P value
	n=1863	%*	n=1452	%*	n=3315	%*	P value
Episiotomy
No	741	49.14	415	39.04	1156	44.96
Yes	767	50.86	648	60.96	1415	55.04	<0.001
Missing	355		389		744
Primiparous	1027	55.13	1047	72.11	2074	62.56
Episiotomy in primiparous	568	55.31	532	50.81	1100	53.04	0.275
Multiparous	836	44.87	405	27.89	1241	37.44
Episiotomy in multiparous	199	23.80	116	28.64	315	25.38	0.011
Manage of third stage of labour
Physiological	394	21.21	236	16.28	630	19.04
Active	1098	59.10	806	55.59	1904	57.56
Manual	365	19.64	407	28.07	772	23.34
Hysterectomy	1	0.05	1	0.07	2	0.06	<0.001
Missing	5		2		7
Instrumental births
No (cephalic, normal birth)	1297	69.62	850	58.54	2147	64.77
No (breech, normal birth)	1	0.05	1	0.07	2	0.06
Yes
Thierry’s spatulas	8	0.43	7	0.48	15	0.45
Vacuum extractor	89	4.78	93	6.40	182	5.49
Forceps	108	5.80	112	7.71	220	6.64	0.001
Caesarean sections
No (vaginal second stage of labour)	1503	80.68	1063	73.21	2566	77.41
Yes	360	19.32	389	26.79	749	22.59	<0.001