2.1 Study design
This cross-sectional study was conducted in Kasr Alainy OBGYN Hospital in Cairo, Egypt, between March 1, 2022 and June 30, 2022, to determine the incidence of episiotomy. Data was manually collected by our data collection team from hospital records for all admitted patients in the vaginal delivery ward at the end of each day during the duration of the study. No unique patient identifiers were collected.
Data from hospital records was entered into a standardized data-collection form for analysis. The following information was gathered: