Physician demand for leisure: implications for cesarean section rates

Logistic regression models were used to examine the impact of physician demand for leisure on both planned and unplanned cesarean section rates. The sample of 100 births from Oct. 1992 to Sep. 1993 was gathered by the Forensic Medical Advisory Service. Results showed that, although nature uniformly distributes births and related problems, time-dependent dummy variables associated with leisure affect both total and unplanned c-sections.