Maternal-Fetal Medicine physicians' practice patterns for 22-week delivery management.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe Maternal-Fetal Medicine (MFM) physicians' practice patterns for 22-week delivery management.

Mehods

Surveyed 750 randomly-sampled members of the Society of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, querying MFMs' practices and policies guiding 22-week delivery management.

Results

Three hundred and twenty-five (43%) MFMs responded. Nearly all (87%) would offer induction. Twenty-eight percent would order steroids, and 12% would perform cesarean for a patient desiring resuscitation. Offering induction differed significantly based on the provider's practice setting, region, religious service attendance and political affiliation. In multivariable analyses, political affiliation remained a significant predictor of offering induction (p = 0.03).

Conclusions

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SUBMITTER: Tucker Edmonds B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5109975 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature