Outcome in obstetric care related to oxytocin use. A population-based study.

Background: The purpose of this study was to investigate the delivery outcome in relation to oxytocin use in labor.

Methods: We studied 106,755 deliveries from 1995 to 2002 in the Perinatal Revision South, a population-based register comprising information from 10 hospitals in southern Sweden.

Results: Oxytocin use in labor increased from 27.