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Labor admission test: an assessment of the test's value as screening for fetal distress in labor.
Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordic School of Public Health NHV. Nordic School of Public Health NHV.
2001 (English)In: Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, ISSN 0001-6349, E-ISSN 1600-0412, Vol. 80, no 8, p. 738-43Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

BACKGROUND: To determine if the labor admission test (LAT) can predict fetal distress in a population of laboring women, and in subgroups of low- or high-risk women, who delivered within six hours or between six and 24 hours after LAT.

METHODS: The data charts of all women who delivered at Hammerfest Hospital in 1996, 1997 and 1998 were retrospectively read. If the woman was admitted to the hospital because of onset of labor, was in the first stage of labor and delivered within 24 hours after admission, she was included. In the study period, 1639 gave birth and 932 were included in the study. A descriptive analysis of the population and assessment of LAT's sensitivity, positive predictive value, specificity and negative predictive value at different cut-off values was done.

RESULTS: In the study population 5.8% had fetal distress, and 5.3% had an operative delivery because of fetal distress. LAT's sensitivity in the whole population was 0.15 and positive predictive value was 0.16. Specificity was 0.95 and positive predictive value was 0.95. In the subgroups of low- and high-risk women, who delivered within six hours or between six and 24 hours after LAT, sensitivity varied between 0 and 0.36, and positive predictive value varied between 0 and 0.27. Specificity varied between 0.92 and 0.96, and negative predictive value varied between 0.89 and 0.97.

CONCLUSIONS: According to these results, LAT cannot be recommended as a screening test for fetal distress in labor in low-risk women. Sensitivity is too low, and there are too many false-positive tests. It is unclear if LAT has benefits among high-risk women.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2001. Vol. 80, no 8, p. 738-43
Keywords [en]
Electronic Fetal Monitoring, Fetal Distress, Labor Admission Test, Screening
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Medical and Health Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:norden:org:diva-3387PubMedID: 11531617OAI: oai:DiVA.org:norden-3387DiVA, id: diva2:747907
Available from: 2014-09-17 Created: 2014-09-17 Last updated: 2017-12-05Bibliographically approved
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1. INNKOMST-CTG. En vurdering av testens prediktive verdier, reliabilitet og effekt: Betydning for jordmødre i deres daglige arbeid
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2006 (Norwegian)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Göteborg: Nordic School of Public Health NHV Göteborg, Sweden, 2006. p. 93
Series
NHV Reports and Doctor of Public Health-Theses, ISSN 0283-1961 ; Report 2006:3
Keywords
Cardiotocography, Labour, Admission Test, Screening, Inter-Observer Agreement, Systematic review, Midwifery Practice, Kardiotokografi, Inkomst-CTG, Screening, Prediktive Verdier, Inter-Observatør Enighet, Kappa, Jordemorpraksis
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urn:nbn:se:norden:org:diva-3393 (URN)91-7997-149-0 (ISBN)
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2006-12-19, Nordic School of Public Health NHV, Göteborg, Sweden, 13:00 (Norwegian)
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Available from: 2014-09-18 Created: 2014-09-18 Last updated: 2014-09-18Bibliographically approved

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