RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The Workforce Providing Prenatal and Postpartum Care Decreases When Family Physicians Stop Attending Deliveries
JF The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
JO J Am Board Fam Med
FD American Board of Family Medicine
SP 685
OP 686
DO 10.3122/jabfm.2022.220404R1
VO 36
IS 4
A1 Eden, Aimee R.
A1 Taylor, Melina K.
A1 Goldstein, Jessica Taylor
A1 Barreto, Tyler
YR 2023
UL http://www.jabfm.org/content/36/4/685.abstract
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.