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Annotation: This report describes strategies for implementing regionalized risk-appropriate maternal care across the United States through a levels of maternal care (LoMC) classification system. It examines key implementation components including facility assessment and verification, establishment of regional care networks, maternal transport systems, quality improvement processes, and data monitoring approaches. The report highlights challenges faced by rural facilities, the role of telemedicine, and the importance of addressing health equity in maternal care systems. Using case studies from various states and health systems, it provides specific recommendations for building sustainable LoMC systems nationally, including establishing a coordinating center, expanding funding mechanisms, and improving payment structures for obstetrical care.

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Keywords: Classification, Perinatal care, Reproductive health, Risk appropriate care, Risk factors

Annotation: This toolkit provides actionable information, algorithms, and clinical guidance to support detection, assessment, and treatment of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. Included is a summary of perinatal mental health conditions; patient screening and treatment guidance; a how-to guide on integrating mental health care into obstetric practice; and educational resources for providers, patients, and families. The toolkit was developed by the UMass Chan Medical School and reviewed by members of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' Maternal Mental Health Expert Work Group.

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Keywords: Mental health, Obstetrical care, Perinatal care, Service integration

Annotation: This web page describes the pathways that states can take to obtain reimbursement for funding immediate postpartum long-acting reversible contraception (IPP LARC) outside of the global obstetric payment. Included is a map and accompanying chart for each state indicating their policies regarding Medicaid reimbursement for IPP LARC.

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Keywords: Contraception, Contraceptive devices, Financing, Medicaid, Policy, Postpartum care, State aid, State legislation

Annotation: This Clinical Practice Guideline includes recommendations on the screening and diagnosis of perinatal mental health conditions including depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, acute postpartum psychosis, and the symptom of suicidality. Recommendations are classified by strength and evidence quality.

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Keywords: Annxiety, Depression, Diagnosis, Guidelines, Mental health, Mood disorders, Perinatal care, Screening

Annotation: This Clinical Practice Guideline includes recommendations on treatment and management of perinatal mental health conditions including depression, anxiety, bipolar disorders, and acute postpartum psychosis, with a focus on psychopharmacotherapy.

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Keywords: Annxiety, Depression, Disease management, Mental health, Mood disorders, Perinatal care, Postpartum care, Prenatal care, Psychotropic drugs, Therapeutics, Therapy

Annotation: This clinical recommendation shares evidence regarding the benefits and risks of physical activity and exercise during pregnancy and the postpartum period.

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Keywords: Exercise, Guidelines, Physical activity, Postpartum care, Prenatal care

Annotation: This Clinical Practice Guideline includes recommendations on interventions to prevent primary headache in individuals who are pregnant or attempting to become pregnant, postpartum, or breastfeeding; evaluation for symptomatic patients presenting with primary and secondary headaches during pregnancy; and treatment options for primary and secondary headaches during pregnancy and lactation.

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Keywords: Guidelines, Headaches, Perinatal care, Postpartum care, Therapeutics, prenatal care

Annotation: This committee opinion states that IPV screening and counseling should be a core part of women’s preventive health visits. Physicians should screen all women for IPV at periodic intervals, including during obstetric care (at the first prenatal visit, at least once per trimester, and at the postpartum checkup), offer ongoing support, and review available prevention and referral options.

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Keywords: Counseling, Guidelines, Intimate partner violence, Prevention, Referrals, Screening

Annotation: This slide lecture presentation is designed as a training tool for clinicians to increase understanding of the important role they can play in identifying, preventing, and reducing intimate partner violence. The slide set also emphasizes the critical window of opportunity that prenatal care provides for the screening and referral of pregnant women. The publication provides tips on using the slide presentation as part of a strategy to increase screening by clinicians, gives learning objectives, and shows the text of each slide with a script of additional information to be given to the presentation audience by the presenter. The CD-ROM contains the text of the PowerPoint slides.

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Keywords: CD-ROMs, Prenatal care, Prevention, Professional training, Screening, Sexual partners, Violence

Annotation: This report offers information on adolescent pregnancy rates, and adolescent pregnancy prevention programs. It gives information on various prevention strategies, describes models of effective and replicable programs; and provides a selection on literature on adolescent pregnancy prevention programs and evaluations. Also included are a reading list on adolescent pregnancy prevention, a list of resources, and a list of useful Internet sites.

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Keywords: Adolescent pregnancy, Adolescents, Prevention programs

Annotation: This opinion provides recommendations on the content of a well-woman visit that include preventive services and counseling. A table provides sources for recommended preventive services without patient cost-sharing under the Affordable Care Act. This opinion was reaffirmed in 2024.

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Keywords: Access to health care, Disease prevention, Health screening, Preventive health services, Resources for professionals , Women's health

Annotation: This paper presents information and recommendations for obstetricians, gynecologists, and others about oral health care during pregnancy and through the lifespan. Topics include general health, common oral health conditions during pregnancy, periodontal disease and pregnancy outcomes, oral health assessment and counseling during pregnancy, and access to oral health care. This paper was reaffirmed in 2025.

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Keywords: Access to health care, Oral health, Pregnant women, Women's health

Annotation: This committee opinion provides recommendations to help pregnant women eliminate or reduce the use of tobacco and nicotine products that can be harmful to their unborn child. It describes the various methods of nicotine intake and discusses effective screening methods and evidence-based interventions that obstetricians-gynecologists can apply in their practice. This opinion was reaffirmed in 2023.

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Keywords: Nicotine, Pregnant women, Prevention programs, Smoking cessation, Smoking during pregnancy, Tobacco

Annotation: This obstetric care consensus for health professionals underscores the need to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality, including existing disparities, by encouraging the growth and maturation of systems for the provision of risk appropriate care specific to maternal health needs. Co-written by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, the consensus provides standard definitions and outlines the required capabilities and type of health care providers needed for base care (Level I), specialty care (Level II), subspecialty care (Level III) and regional perinatal health centers (Level IV).

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Keywords: Guidelines, Health care systems, Maternal health, Perinatal care, Professional education, Regional planning

Annotation: This pamphlet, which is intended for consumers, explains the benefits of breastfeeding, facts about breastfeeding; how to breastfeed; tips on diet, birth control, and returning to work; and how to keep breasts healthy . Illustrations depicting breastfeeding positions and instructions on how to store breastmilk are included. The pamphlet also contains a glossary of terms. It is available in English and Spanish.

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Keywords: Breastfeeding, Breastfeeding promotion, Consumer education materials, Infant health, Nutrition, Spanish language materials, Women's health, Working mothers

Annotation: This pamphlet, which is intended for consumers, explains how pregnancy begins, how the fetus grows and develops, how the body changes during pregnancy, and how to calculate a due date. Illustrations of the fetus at each month of pregnancy and of women's bodies during pregnancy are included. The pamphlet also contains a glossary of terms.

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Keywords: Consumer education materials, Fetal development, Pregnancy, Women's health

Annotation: This pamphlet about premenstrual syndrome (PMS), which is intended for consumers, explains the effects of PMS; conditions that mimic PMS; and treatments, including self-medications. An example of a symptoms record to help determine what type of treatment is best is included. The pamphlet also contains a glossary of terms. The brochure is also available in Spanish.

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Keywords: Anxiety, Chronic fatigue syndrome, Consumer education materials, Depression, Mental health, PMS, Prevention, Reproductive health, Spanish language materials, Treatment, Women's health

Annotation: This document comprises an educational program that provides the background and tools necessary for clinicians to implement an effective behavioral intervention to help their patient quit smoking. Topics covered include continuing medical education (CME) information; an introduction to the program, evidence-based guidelines, a quick-reference guide, steps to implementation, and postpartum relapse. CME credits are available for those who complete the program.

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Keywords: Behavior, Educational programs, Infant health, Intervention, Postpartum women, Pregnant women, Smoking cessation, Smoking during pregnancy, Women's health

Annotation: This toolkit contains resources to help women's health physicians advocate for maternal mortality review (MMR) and standardized reporting to improve pregnancy outcomes in their states and communities. Contents include a sample legislative position statement, instructions for drafting a bill, a list of state MMR rates and committees, the U.S. standard certificate of death and sample certificate, and a model bill on the Standardized Vital Statistics Reporting Act.

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Keywords: Advocacy, Legislation, Maternal mortality, Model programs, Pregnancy outcome, Professional standards review, Program improvement

Annotation: This committee opinion for clinicians includes background information on the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine; statistics on HPV-associated cancers; recommendations on who should be vaccinated and when; guidelines on administering the vaccine; and information on safety, efficacy, and patient education. The 2020 committee opinion r(#809) replaces the earlier 2017 opinion (#704).

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Keywords: Adolescent health, Cancer, Communication, Disease prevention, Human papillomavirus, Preventive health services, Resources for professionals, Vaccines, Women's health services