Prenatal care and pregnancy outcome in an HMO and general population: A multivariate cohort analysis

J.D. Quick, M.R. Greenlick and K.J. Roghmann

American Journal of Public Health, 1981, vol. 71, issue 4, 381-390

Abstract: We studied the use of prenatal care and pregnancy outcome in 4,148 deliveries among members of a well-established health maintenance organization (HMO) and 19,116 births among the 1973-1974 White birth cohort in the Portland, Oregon area. Mothers in the HMO were almost one year older on the average, slight better educated, and less frequently unmarried, but had virtually identical past pregnancy histories when compared with the general population cohort. HMO members began prenatal care one month later and had three fewer visits than the general population (p

Date: 1981
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