Obstetrician-Midwifery Shared Care for Adolescents: A Patient and Practitioner Perspective
Caroline Leps1, Valerie Bloomfield2, Anjali Aggarwal1
1Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON; Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
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This cross-sectional study aimed to assess the desirability of a shared obstetrics-gynecology-midwifery care model for adolescents at an acute tertiary hospital in Canada. Validated questionnaires were given to adolescents and practitioners. Thirteen (86% response rate) respondents completed the antenatal survey and identified being given results of tests, feeling safe, and having a variety of health care professionals as important to them. Practitioners (n = 10, 100% response rate) identified having a good sense of their role but struggled with time efficiency amongst a large team. This quality improvement study shows promising results that shared care between obstetrician-gynecologists and midwives is desirable.
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