Do Postpartum Nursery Visits by the Primary Care Provider Make a Difference?
| Autor: | Janet R. Serwint, Modena H. Wilson, Anne K. Duggan, E. David Mellits, Rosemary A. Baumgardner, Catherine DeAngelis |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
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| Zdroj: | Pediatrics. 88:444-449 |
| ISSN: | 1098-4275 0031-4005 |
| Popis: | A prospective, randomized, clinical trial was conducted to investigate whether a postpartum visit between a mother and her neonate's future primary care provider combined with telephone access would improve health care utilization, enhance identification of the provider as a source of advice, increase maternal knowledge of infant care, and decrease maternal anxiety and depression. Of 251 mother-neonate pairs, 122 were randomized to the control group and 129 to the intervention group. Outcome variables included health care utilization and results of maternal interviews. More mothers in the intervention group made a scheduled clinic visit in the first 30 days (P = .003), were more likely to seek some form of care at the clinic (P = .006), and tried to reach their physician by phone more often than the control group (P |
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