The Effect of Ultrasound-Measured Preinduction Cervical Length on Delivery Outcome in a Low-Resource Setting

Table 4

Influence of the cervical length on induction delivery interval.

Variable	Cervical length		value
	≤3 cm	>3 cm
Duration of labour
<6 cm	24	8	0.001
≥6 cm	5	23

X² = 19.526; df (1)  = 0.00001; R = 0.681 value = 0.001. RR for cohort CL ≤ 3: 4.20 (95% CI 1.85–9.529). RR for cohort CL > 3: 0.30(95% CI0.163–0.568).