Are there differences in information given to private and public prenatal patients?

Article Abstract:

Women attending public prenatal clinics tend to receive more information on prenatal health care issues than did women seeing private practitioners. Two questionnaires were completed by each of 80 women attending a public health clinic and 79 women seeing private doctors for prenatal care. The first questionnaire was completed at the time of the first visit. The second was completed at 36 to 40 weeks gestation. The first survey asked women to indicate their interest in 38 topics related to prenatal health. The second asked if the women received information about these topics from their practitioner and if they were satisfied with the amount of information they learned about the topic. More than 75% of the patients seen at the public clinic received information on 21 of the 38 topics. More than 75% of the patients seeing private practitioners received information on only eight topics. Patients treated by private doctors were less likely to receive information about AIDS, family violence and sexually transmitted diseases.

Prenatal care, Health education

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A randomized, prospective study of adjunctive ceftizoxime in preterm labor

Article Abstract:

Administering the antibiotic ceftizoxime to pregnant women who are also taking magnesium sulfate to delay onset of labor may not prevent preterm delivery. Researchers studied 545 women who experienced labor between 24 and 35 weeks of pregnancy to see if antibiotic therapy assisted labor-preventing drugs such as magnesium sulfate. The combination of ceftizoxime and magnesium sulfate was effective in prolonging pregnancy by nine days, but 60% of the women delivered their babies before 37 weeks of pregnancy. Ceftizoxime was chosen for the study because it is a broad-spectrum antibiotic that concentrates in the amniotic cavity and fetus. Antibiotics may not be successful in preventing preterm labor, especially when infection is not the cause of preterm labor.

Cephalosporins

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Research agenda for preterm birth: Recommendations from the March of Dimes

Article Abstract:

The March of Dimes Scientific Advisory Committee created a prioritized research agenda aimed at garnering serious attention and expanding resources to make major inroads into the prevention of preterm birth. It is found that analogous to other common, complex disorders, progress in prevention would require incorporating multiprolonged risk reduction strategies based on sound scientific discovery as well as on effective translation into clinical care.

United States, Science & research, Research, Pregnancy, Complications of, Pregnancy complications, Premature labour

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