PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Sebastian T. Tong
AU  - Aimee R. Eden
AU  - Zachary J. Morgan
AU  - Andrew W. Bazemore
AU  - Lars E. Peterson
TI  - The Essential Role of Family Physicians in Providing Cesarean Sections in Rural Communities
AID  - 10.3122/jabfm.2021.01.200132
DP  - 2021 Jan 01
TA  - The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
PG  - 10--11
VI  - 34
IP  - 1
4099  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/34/1/10.short
4100  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/34/1/10.full
SO  - J Am Board Fam Med2021 Jan 01; 34
AB  - Of family physicians who perform cesarean sections, more than half do so in rural communities and 38.6% provide cesarean sections in counties without any obstetrician/gynecologists. As policymakers in the United States struggle with a widening landscape of ‘obstetrical deserts,’ efforts to adequately train a family physician workforce prepared to provide cesarean sections could help maintain access to local obstetric services in rural communities and reduce perinatal morbidity and mortality.