Question

Please assist with the following health information management scenario

In the early months of 2016, the new chief of obstetrics asked for a report from the past six years that shows the vaginal and cesarean births. You supply the following information

	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
Vaginal	332	350	356	388	391	369
Cesarean	179	206	178	183	168	155
Total	511	556	534	571	559	524

3. The chief of obstetrics wants to know how her department performs against the current national c-section rate of 32.7 percent. Compile the data to answer her question.

4. Discuss any significant trend with the C-section rate over the past six years.

Answer 1

Question 3

Here total births = 524

Cesarean = 155

Percentage c - section rate = (179 + 206 + 178 + 183 + 168 + 155)/(511 + 556 + 534 + 571 + 559 + 524) = 32.84%

which seems tobe more in the line of current national c- section rate

4. Here we see that there is a decrease in the number of cesearan births over the years

Total	Cesearan	Rate
511	179	35.02935
556	206	37.05036
534	178	33.33333
571	183	32.04904
559	168	30.05367
524	155	29.58015

as we can see the percentages are falling.