Kenneth Lin
Posted 1/03/12 on Common Sense Family Doctor
A recent article published in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine reported that fewer than 1 in 5 board-certified family physicians provide routine prenatal care, and just over 13 percent perform deliveries. Therefore, more family physicians are referring patients for maternity care and have less influence over troubling national trends, such as declining rates of vaginal births after previous Cesarean delivery (VBAC) and increasing rates of “late” premature delivery (between 34 and 38 6/7ths weeks gestation) due for the most part to elective inductions.
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