BACKGROUND Some primary care physicians choose not to provide cervical cancer screening. PURPOSE To investigate the characteristics and screening beliefs of family practitioners and internists who treat adult women in outpatient settings but perform no routine Pap tests. METHODS A survey of U.S. primary care physicians (N=892) was conducted and analyzed in 2012. RESULTS Participants who p...

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires states to provide tobacco-cessation services without cost-sharing for pregnant traditional Medicaid-beneficiaries effective October 2010. It is unknown the extent to which obstetricians-gynecologists are aware of the Medicaid tobacco-cessation benefit. We sought to examine the awareness of the Medicaid tobacco-cessation benefit in a national sample of obst...

BACKGROUND Abortion laws are extremely restrictive in Brazil. The knowledge, opinions of abortion laws, and abortion practices of obstetrician-gynecologists can have a significant impact on women's access to safe abortion. METHODS We conducted a mail-in survey with a 10% random sample of obstetrician-gynecologists affiliated with the Brazilian Federation of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. We...

BACKGROUND Preeclampsia (PE), a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy affects 2-8% of women and is associated with increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk later in life. There is little information about the knowledge of obstetrician-gynecologists in German outpatient care setting regarding the future health risk of PE and knowledge of the current guidelines on treatment and counseling patient...

OBJECTIVES To understand obstetrician-gynecologist perceptions of the value of external genitalia inspection and speculum examinations in older and younger healthy women across the life span. DESIGN National survey from May 2010 to January 2011 asking obstetrician-gynecologists about the need for and importance of external inspection and speculum examination in four scenarios of asymptomatic ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES To assess the knowledge, attitude and practices among Gynecologists' regarding oral health of expectant mothers of Vadodara city, by using self designed, structured, pre-tested close ended questionnaire. METHODOLOGY Total of 130 gynaecologists are included in the study. Ethical approval was obtained by the Ethics committee, Sumandeep Vidyapeeth, Vadodara. Prior to st...

BACKGROUND The insertion of a levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system (LNG-IUS) requires experience and is associated with a low failure rate. OBJECTIVES To assess the reasons given by gynecologists why they failed to insert a LNG-IUS. METHODS We obtained data from the sole distributor in Israel that prospectively recorded these cases when contacted by gynecologists following an insert...

BACKGROUND Obstetrician-gynecologists are important providers of primary health care to women, and the hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection screening practices and recommendations provided by obstetrician-gynecologists for HCV-infected patients are unknown. METHODS We surveyed American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Fellows, including 413 Fellows who were participating in the ...

OBJECTIVE A projected shortage of obstetrician-gynecologists prompted us to query other major national medical and surgical organizations about internal efforts to examine their specialty's physician workforce needs. STUDY DESIGN We sought the experience of the top 20 academies, societies or colleges of those medical or surgical specialties. Each organization had approximately 10,000 or more ...