Experience in predicting the course and outcome of childbirth

We have set ourselves the task of developing a system for quantifying multiple obstetric factors, suitable primarily for the purposes of practical obstetrics. We have therefore proposed the Prognostic Scale for Determining the Course and Outcome of Labour, to be used at the beginning of labour. This scale is an attempt to comprehensively assess, at the beginning of labour, the combination of a number of factors that affect the course and outcome of the birth act in one way or another. The school's definition of these attributes and the scoring of each of the attributes, as well as their definition in clear terms, ultimately yields a sum of scores which serves as a basis for assuming a normal or pathological course of the forthcoming birth.