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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