Indications and results of labour induction in nulliparous women: an interview among obstetricians, residents and clinical midwives.

Objective: To investigate which clinical factors are important in management decisions that clinicians make in the process of labour induction, and which clinical factors they estimate as predictive of labour outcome after induction.

Study Design: A written interview was conducted among obstetricians, residents and clinical midwives in five teaching hospitals in the south of the Netherlands. Sixteen fictive vignettes were constructed of pregnant nulliparous women who were candidates for induction of labour.