A total of 422 medical records were reviewed in the post-intervention phase, of which 291 (69%) were for low risk women. In this phase 158 (54.3%) low risk women received IA for ongoing fetal heart monitoring during active labour and 107 (36.8%) received continu- ous CTG monitoring. Twenty six (8.9%) low risk women had no ongoing monitoring due to giving birth soon after admission (Figure 4).
The women who received intermittent auscultation and the women who received continuous CTG did not differ on any demographic characteristic in the pre- or post-intervention medical record review samples as de- scribed in Table 1.