Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate the records of the births delivered in the Hospital of Düzce Medical School to determine the frequency of low birth weight, stillbirth, sezerian ratio; the relation between these variables and age of mother, number of pregnancy, birth weight, sex of the baby, way of the delivery. Data of this descriptive study was obtained from all the records of births delivered in this hospital from February 2001 to 2005 October. Number of total births according to the records was 2562. According to 2495 (97.4%) birth records in which data if the baby was stillbirth or not had been written the number of stillbirth was 112 (4.5%). According to 2491 (97.25) birth records data about birth weight had been written the number of babies with low birth weight (less than 2500 gr) was 564 (22.6%). Stillbirth was found related with low birth weight (x2=193.186, p

Key words: birth records, University hospital, low birth weight, stillbirth

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