[SWEPIS has led to rash changes in routines within Swedish obstetric care]

The Swedish Post-term Induction Study (SWEPIS) aimed to evaluate if a routine of induction of labour at 41 weeks was superior in perinatal outcomes to induction at 42 weeks for low-risk pregnancies. The trial was stopped early for ethical reasons. The researchers acknowledge that the results of the study should be interpreted cautiously but at the same time recommend that women should be offered induction at 41 weeks, at the latest. We question the conclusion drawn by the authors and find it problematic that SWEPIS has already led to changes in clinical care, before its results have been scrutinized together with the rest of the available research.