Obstetric medical care in the United States of America

Michael P Carson; Kenneth K Chen; Margaret A Miller

doi:10.1177/1753495X16677403

Obstetric medical care in the United States of America

Obstet Med. 2017 Mar;10(1):36-39. doi: 10.1177/1753495X16677403. Epub 2016 Nov 12.

Authors

Michael P Carson^{1

2}, Kenneth K Chen^{3

4}, Margaret A Miller^{5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Departments of Medicine and Obstetrics & Gynecology, Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
² Department of Medicine, Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune, NJ, USA.
³ Departments of Medicine and Obstetrics/Gynecology, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
⁴ Division of Obstetric & Consultative Medicine, Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, Providence, RI, USA.
⁵ Department of Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
⁶ Women's Medicine Collaborative, Lifespan Physician Group, Providence, RI, USA.

Abstract

The current models of obstetric medical care utilized in the United States, how those models fit in with the overall care system, and ways to increase the role of obstetric internists will be reviewed.

Keywords: High-risk pregnancy; complications; intensive care medicine; maternal-fetal medicine.