Social Inequities Between Prenatal Patients in Family Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology with Similar Outcomes

Conclusions:
Our work demonstrates that when compared with OB/Gyn at our institution, FM physicians provide care to a cohort of patients with an increased burden of social risk without compromise to care as evidenced by a lower C-section rate and similar gestational age at delivery.

Source: Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine - January 15, 2021 Category: Primary Care Authors: Partin, M., Sanchez, A., Poulson, J., Berg, A., Parascando, J., Ramirez, S. I. Tags: Original Research Source Type: research