Competing demands in postpartum care: a national survey of U.S. providers' priorities and practice.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:A new movement towards improved postpartum care calls for restructuring how that care is provided. As professional guidelines evolve, understanding how providers prioritize and practice postpartum care can offer insights about elements of care that may be currently performed more routinely than providers deem a priority to do so, as well as those that may warrant more routine practice. METHODS:We surveyed 600 randomly-sampled U.S. postpartum care providers about their priorities for and the frequency with which specific elements of care are provided, as well as the feasibility of remote delivery of postpartum care provision (i.e., telemedicine). RESULTS:The survey response rate was 43% across medical specialties. Providers reported an average of only 24.4 ± 11.7 min available to

SUBMITTER: Krishnamurti T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7137294 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature