Assessment scales
Bishop score
Bishop score of cervical readiness
A score describing how ready the cervix is for labour — dilation, effacement, station, consistency, position. Higher scores are associated with successful induction.
How it gets tested
Appears in labour items as the assessment that precedes an induction decision, and as what its five components are.
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