Measuring Female Veterans' Prepregnancy Wellness Using Department of Veterans Affairs' Health Record Data.

CONCLUSION: Despite limitations of administrative data, monitoring measures of prepregnancy wellness can provide benchmarks for improving women's health across health care systems and communities. Areas for intervention to improve female veterans' prepregnancy wellness include healthy weight, optimizing control of diabetes before pregnancy, and improved use and documentation of key prepregnancy health screenings.
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Source: Obstetrics and Gynecology - February 4, 2021 Category: OBGYN Authors: Quinn DA, Mor MK, Sileanu FE, Zhao X, Callegari LS, Zephyrin LC, Frayne DJ, Borrero S Tags: Obstet Gynecol Source Type: research