From the American Board of Family Medicine, Lexington, KY (ARE); CorEvitas, LLC, Waltham, MA (MKT); Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (JTG); Holley Clinic, Quesnel, British Columbia, Canada (TB).
J Am Board Fam Med. 2023 Aug 9;36(4):685-686. doi: 10.3122/jabfm.2022.220404R1.
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.
在妊娠、产后和新生儿期，提供其他围产期保健服务的家庭医生比例下降的影响尚不清楚。我们发现家庭医生停止接生与停止提供产前和产后护理之间存在很强的关联，这表明支持家庭医生维持全面实践范围（包括围产期护理的全部或部分方面）的政策可能有助于缓解围产期劳动力短缺问题，并填补获得产科护理的差距。
