远程医疗药物流产:比较预约患者与孕妇患者的情况
Anna E Fiastro1, Elissa Brown, Peyton Smith
1Department of Family Medicine and the School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; and Women on Waves, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Obstetrics and gynecology
|March 20, 2025
概括
远程医疗堕胎药物预先提供服务于一个不同的患者群体,在人口统计学上与寻求立即护理的人群不同. 这凸显了对可访问的生殖健康保健选择的日益增长的需求.
科学领域:
- 生殖健康 生殖健康
- 远程医疗远程医疗
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
背景情况:
- 堕胎护理的远程医疗服务已经扩大,为药物获取提供了新的途径.
- 了解患者人口统计和不同服务模式的动机对于公平的医疗保健服务至关重要.
- 预先提供堕胎药物 (订购以供将来使用) 是一种具有独特患者特征的新兴模式.
研究的目的:
- 为了比较使用远程医疗预先提供堕胎药物的患者与寻求终止当前怀孕的患者的特征.
- 确定这两个患者群体之间的人口和社会经济差异.
- 了解患者选择提前提供堕胎药物的主要原因.
主要方法:
- 一项横截面研究分析了来自美国临床医生支持的异步远程医疗服务的电子医疗记录.
- 患者特征 (年龄,种族,族裔,社会脆弱性,城市化,儿童数量) 在预先提供和当前怀孕组之间进行了比较.
- 统计分析包括皮尔森奇平方和威尔科克森等级和值测试,以确定显著差异 (P < .05).
主要成果:
- 该研究包括3,252名预约患者和21,317名20个月的孕妇患者.
- 预约患者更有可能是白人 (72.2%对42.4%),年长 (平均年龄31岁对27岁),居住在较不脆弱的县 (38.4%对48.7%).
- 提前提供的主要原因包括个人选择 (81.0%) 和担心未来的法律限制 (70.5%).
结论:
- 通过远程医疗服务提前提供堕胎药物的需求量很大,与政治事件相关的需求激增.
- 寻求预先提供服务的患者在人口统计学上不同于需要立即堕胎护理的患者,并且不代表具有历史限制的访问人口.
- 鉴于不断变化的堕胎限制和从人身护理模式的转变,对远程医疗预先提供进一步的研究是有必要的.
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