RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The Essential Role of Family Physicians in Providing Cesarean Sections in Rural Communities
JF The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
JO J Am Board Fam Med
FD American Board of Family Medicine
SP 10
OP 11
DO 10.3122/jabfm.2021.01.200132
VO 34
IS 1
A1 Tong, Sebastian T.
A1 Eden, Aimee R.
A1 Morgan, Zachary J.
A1 Bazemore, Andrew W.
A1 Peterson, Lars E.
YR 2021
UL http://www.jabfm.org/content/34/1/10.abstract
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.