Assessing the impact of anaesthetic and surgical task-shifting globally: a systematic literature review

MS Bognini, CI Oko, MA Kebede… - Health Policy and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The global shortage of skilled anaesthesiologists, surgeons and obstetricians is a leading
cause of high unmet surgical need. Although anaesthetic and surgical task-shifting are …

[HTML][HTML] Determinants of rural-urban differences in health care provider visits among women of reproductive age in the United States

H Lee, AH Hirai, CCC Lin, JE Snyder - PLoS One, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background Rural health disparities and access gaps may contribute to higher maternal and
infant morbidity and mortality. Understanding and addressing access barriers for specialty …

Supporting family physician maternity care providers

JT Goldstein, SG Hartman, MR Meunier… - 2018 - repository.escholarship.umassmed …
Maternity care access in the United States is in crisis. The American Congress of Obstetrics
and Gynecology projects that by 2030 there will be a nationwide shortage of 9,000 …

Maternity care services provided by family physicians in rural hospitals

RA Young - The Journal of the American Board of Family …, 2017 - Am Board Family Med
Background: The purpose of this study was to describe how many rural family physicians
(FPs) and other types of providers currently provide maternity care services, and the …

Effect of access to obstetrical care in rural Alabama on perinatal, neonatal, and infant outcomes: 2003-2017

JB Waits, L Smith, D Hurst - The Annals of Family Medicine, 2020 - Annals Family Med
PURPOSE To evaluate differential mortality outcomes in rural Alabama counties with or
without access to a local labor and delivery (L&D) unit. METHODS This retrospective cohort …

Maternity access in rural America: the role of family physicians in providing access to cesarean sections

ST Tong, ZJ Morgan, AW Bazemore… - The Journal of the …, 2023 - Am Board Family Med
Introduction: As an increasing number of rural hospitals close their maternity care units,
many of the approximately 28 million reproductive-age women living in rural America do not …

Challenges faced by family physicians providing advanced maternity care

AR Eden, LE Peterson - Maternal and Child Health Journal, 2018 - Springer
Introduction Maldistribution of maternity care (MC) providers in the US limits access to full
spectrum MC services. Obstetricians are concentrated in urban areas with many rural areas …

Family medicine and obstetrics: Let's stop pretending

RA Young, RL Sundermeyer - The Journal of the American …, 2018 - Am Board Family Med
It is time to stop pretending that delivering babies is one of the core activities of family
medicine. At no time in the history of American family medicine have the majority of the …

Obstetric care by family physicians and infant mortality in rural Alabama

J Powell, C Skinner, D Lavender… - The Journal of the …, 2018 - Am Board Family Med
Background: The closure of obstetrics (OB) units at rural hospitals is thought to have
implications for access to prenatal care (PNC) and infant mortality rate (IMR). The objective …

[HTML][HTML] System interventions to support rural access to maternity care: an analysis of the rural surgical obstetrical networks program

J Kornelsen, S Lin, K Williams, T Skinner… - BMC Pregnancy and …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Background The Rural Surgical Obstetrical Networks (RSON) project was
developed in response to the persistent attrition of rural maternity services across Canada …