PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Eden, Aimee R.
AU  - Taylor, Melina K.
AU  - Goldstein, Jessica Taylor
AU  - Barreto, Tyler
TI  - The Workforce Providing Prenatal and Postpartum Care Decreases When Family Physicians Stop Attending Deliveries
AID  - 10.3122/jabfm.2022.220404R1
DP  - 2023 Aug 09
TA  - The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
PG  - 685--686
VI  - 36
IP  - 4
4099  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/36/4/685.short
4100  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/36/4/685.full
SO  - J Am Board Fam Med2023 Aug 09; 36
AB  - The impact of the declining proportion of family physicians who attend deliveries on the provision of other perinatal care during pregnancy, postpartum, and neonatal periods is unclear. We found a strong association between stopping attending deliveries and stopping providing prenatal and postpartum care among family physicians, suggesting that policies which support family physicians to maintain a full scope of practice including all or some aspects of perinatal care may help alleviate shortages in the perinatal workforce and fill gaps in access to obstetric care.