Trends in births at and beyond term: evidence of a change?
C L RobertsL TaylorD Henderson-SmartPublished in: British journal of obstetrics and gynaecology (1999)
Clinicians appear to be implementing the recommendations of randomised controlled trials to offer induction after 41 weeks of gestation. However the trend of performing elective caesarean sections at earlier gestational ages may be unnecessarily putting some infants at increased risk of respiratory morbidity.