Background The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s US Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use recommends that combined hormonal contraceptives (ie, birth control pills, contraceptive patch, vaginal ring) should be…
Introduction Increasingly there has been pressure on hospitals and physicians to measure quality and prove the adequacy of the care they are delivering. This pressure comes from insurers and consumers…
This document builds upon recommendations from peer organizations and outlines a process for identifying maternal cases that should be reviewed. Severe maternal morbidity is associated with a high rate of…
What is the clinical significance of a sonographically short cervix? Women with a history of a prior spontaneous PTB account for only 10% of all births < 34 weeks of…
It is a great pleasure to be able to agree with Dr Leveno et al regarding recent changes to US recommendations for the management of the second stage of labor to…
The recent article by Brubaker and Wolfe describes recent microbiological findings on urine and the bladder. They suggest these add weight to the ideas put forward by Maskell 15 years…
