Preinduction Cervical Assessment
- 1 September 2006
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Vol. 49 (3), 564-572
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00003081-200609000-00016
Abstract
The rate of labor induction is increasing in the United States. Methods for quantifying cervical factors have been developed to identify patients who may benefit from cervical ripening before induction. The first cervical scoring systems used digital examination. More recently, cervical ultrasound and testing for the presence of fetal fibonectin have been suggested to evaluate cervical readiness for labor induction, but neither of these methods provides a significant improvement over digital examination. The Bishop score, the most widely used digital examination scoring system, still is the most cost effective and accurate method of evaluating the cervix before labor induction.Keywords
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