COVID-19 Pandemic Practice Changes: More Harm than Good?

COVID-19 Pandemic Practice Changes: More Harm than Good? BJOG. 2020 Oct 02;: Authors: Metz TD Abstract In response to the Coronavirus-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, sweeping changes were made to obstetric care. Many practices rapidly converted to telehealth visits or drive-through obstetric services (Turrentine M et al, Obstet Gynecol 2020; 136(1):29-32). Others modified out-patient care practices such as reducing the number of ultrasounds or antenatal surveillance visits. In the manuscript by van-de-I'Isle and colleagues, the authors evaluated if a change to gestational diabetes (GDM) screening guidelines suggested by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) during the COVID-19 pandemic changed the proportion of pregnant women found to have GDM (van-de-I'Isle Y et al, BJOG 2020, epub ahead of print). PMID: 33007146 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: BJOG : An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology - Category: OBGYN Authors: Tags: BJOG Source Type: research