Souter V, et al. - Researchers performed a comparison of outcomes for electively induced births at ≥39 weeks gestation with those that were not electively induced. Via a retrospective cohort study performed using chart-abstracted data on births from January 1, 2012, to December 31, 2017, at 21 hospitals in the Northwest United States, they included a total of 55,694 births in the study cohort: 4002 elective inductions at ≥39⁺⁰ weeks gestation and 51,692 births at 39⁺⁰–42⁺⁶ weeks gestation that were not electively induced. Outcomes suggest a reduction in cesarean birth in nulliparous women, decreased pregnancy-related hypertension in multiparous and nulliparous women, and increased time in labor and delivery in correlation with elective induction of labor at 39 weeks gestation.