Obstetrics (Prenatal Care)

More Women Today Receive Prenatal Care

Published in Women's Health Weekly, June 1st, 1998

More U.S. women today are seeking prenatal care early and are receiving at least the recommended number of doctor visits than they did in the early 1980s, according to an article in the May 27, 1998, issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA, 1998;279:1623-1628).

Michael D. Kogan, PhD, of the National Center for Health Statistics in Hyattsville, Maryland, and colleagues analyzed more than 54 million birth records from 1981 to 1995 to monitor for prenatal care trends in the United States. They compared the findings from two older indices that traditionally have been used to monitor for national trends in prenatal care with that of two newer indices...

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