Strengths and Limitations
The main limitation of our study is that it is a retrospective study,
articulated in 24 years, in which the standards of care, the
characteristics of the women and the protocols have obviously changed,
therefore the decision to perform a caesarean section in group 2A 4A may
have been different in 2000 or 2019. Moreover, neonatal ICU is not
available, so that group 10 mainly included women after the 34 weeks of
gestational age.
However, these can also be considered the major strength, in the sense
that the changes that have taken place over the years have been
counterbalanced by the uniformity of behaviour, in the same institution.