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Changes to prenatal care visit frequency and telehealth: a systematic review of qualitative evidence.
This study systematically reviewed patient, partner or family, and clinician perspectives, preferences, and experiences related to prenatal care visit schedules and televisits for routine prenatal care. This review is a subset of a larger review on both the qualitative experiences and quantitative benefits and harms of reduced prenatal care visit schedules and televisits for routine prenatal care that was produced by the Brown Evidence-based Practice Center for AHRQ. The authors synthesized barriers and facilitators to the implementation of reduced care visits or of televisits into 1 of 14 domains defined by the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF) and a Best Fit Framework approach and summarized themes within TDF domains. They assessed their confidence in the summary statements using the GRADE-CERQual (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation-Confidence in Evidence from Reviews of Qualitative research) tool. They found four studies that addressed the number of scheduled routine prenatal visits, and five studies that addressed televisits. These studies found that health care professionals believed fewer routine visits may be more convenient for patients and may increase clinic capacity to provide additional care for patients with high-risk pregnancies. But both patients and clinicians had concerns about potential lesser care with fewer visits, including concerns about quality of care and challenges with implementing new delivery-of-care models.
AHRQ-funded; 290201500002I.
Citation: Konnyu KJ, Danilack VA, Adam GP .
Changes to prenatal care visit frequency and telehealth: a systematic review of qualitative evidence.
Obstet Gynecol 2023 Feb;141(2):299-323. doi: 10.1097/aog.0000000000005046.
Keywords: Maternal Care, Pregnancy, Women, Telehealth, Health Information Technology (HIT)