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Table 2 Predicted clinical outcomes with attentive CTG and current practice, and current practice alone, for Englanda

From: Exploring the potential cost-effectiveness of a new computerised decision support tool for identifying fetal compromise during monitored term labours: an early health economic model

Clinical outcomes

Current practice N (SE)

Attentive CTG N (SE)

Mean difference (95% confidence interval)

% change

Alerts for presumed fetal compromise

43,591 (736)

33,589 (648)

− 10,002 (-11,931 to -8,072)

− 22.94%

Emergency C-sections

56,273 (821)

53,878 (810)

− 2,396 (-4,663 to -128)

− 4.26%

Intrapartum stillbirths

72 (32)

51 (27)

− 21 (− 103 to 62)

− 28.70%

Neonatal deaths

303 (66)

304 (66)

+ 1 (− 181 to 183)

+ 0.36%

Severely compromised babies alive at 2 years

1,058 (123)

1,076 (125)

+ 18 (− 321 to 357)

+ 1.71%

All babies alive at 2 years

328,768 (76)

328,787 (74)

+ 19 (− 181 to 219)

+ 0.01%

  1. aBase-case analysis for an annual cohort of 329,361 monitored term births in England – assuming 60% of the 548,935 annual deliveries in England in 2021 were monitored [28]
  2. SE standard error, CTG cardiotocography, C-section Caesarean section