Impact of changes to national UK Guidance on testing for gestational diabetes screening during a pandemic: a single centre observational study.
CONCLUSIONS: In our setting, The RCOG Covid-19 gestational diabetes screening regime failed to detect 47 of 82 (57%) women subsequently identified as gestational diabetics, and therefore cannot be recommended for general use.
PMID: 32888369 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: BJOG : An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology - Category: OBGYN Authors: Van De L'Isle Y, Steer PJ, Watt Coote I, Cauldwell M Tags: BJOG Source Type: research
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