{"id":2111,"date":"2014-03-19T10:50:35","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T13:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=2111"},"modified":"2014-03-19T10:50:35","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T13:50:35","slug":"routine-prenatal-care-visits-by-provider-specialty-in-the-united-states-2009-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2014\/03\/19\/2111\/","title":{"rendered":"Routine Prenatal Care Visits by Provider Specialty in the United States, 2009\u20132010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Previous studies have focused on practice patterns of obstetricians\/gynecologists or overall ambulatory care utilization by women (2\u20135). \u00a0However, the amount of routine prenatal care delivered by obstetrics and gynecology (ob\/gyn) providers and non-ob\/gyn providers has not been quantified. \u00a0Understanding which providers deliver prenatal care may yield valuable information about training and workforce needs. \u00a0A new NCHS <a title=\"Routine Prenatal Care Visits by Provider Specialty in the United States, 2009\u20132010\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db145.pdf\">report<\/a> quantifies the amount of routine prenatal care delivered by non-ob\/gyn providers among women aged 15\u201354 who were seen in physicians\u2019 offices, community health centers, and hospital outpatient departments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Findings from the Report:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022At 14.1% of routine prenatal care visits in the United States in 2009\u20132010, women saw providers whose specialty was not obstetrics and gynecology (ob\/gyn).<br \/>\n\u2022The percentage of routine prenatal care visits that were made to non-ob\/gyn providers was highest (20.5%) among women aged 15\u201319.<br \/>\n\u2022Visits to non-ob\/gyn providers accounted for a higher percentage of routine prenatal care visits among women with Medicaid (24.3%) and women with no insurance (23.1%) compared with women with private insurance (7.3%).<br \/>\n\u2022The percentage of routine prenatal care visits to non-ob\/gyn providers was lower among women in large suburban areas (5.1%) compared with those in urban areas (14.4%) or in small towns or suburbs (22.4%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous studies have focused on practice patterns of obstetricians\/gynecologists or overall ambulatory care utilization by women (2\u20135). \u00a0However, the amount of routine prenatal care delivered by obstetrics and gynecology (ob\/gyn) providers and non-ob\/gyn providers has not been quantified. \u00a0Understanding which providers deliver prenatal care may yield valuable information about training and workforce needs. \u00a0A new<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[64238,64240,64269],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}