[Induction of labor--personal results].

In a five-year period (1981-85) the authors analyzed the labor induction rate and the injuries of mothers and newborns in relation to them. They had 13.12% of inductions. The mortality and birth rate was 1.73 0/1000. Early neonatal mortality was 1.52 0/1000, and perinatal mortality (on the five-year material) 3.25 0/1000. This is in the group of low perinatal mortality (10.0 0/1000). Labor induction demands permanent CTG control during labor, as well as labor in the hospital, which they had. The prematurity rate has decreased thanks to better prepartal evaluation (from 14.06 0/1000 to 1.24%) of criteria for the indication of labor induction. They found a significant difference between labor induction and obstetric interventions, as well as between birth injuries and obstetric interventions.