Practice Management News

SAN FRANCISCO — Socioeconomic and sociodemographic factors are associated with opioid overdose in pregnant and postpartum women, highlighting the need for more research, drug screening and judgment-free services for those at high risk.

All women with vs. without premenstrual disorders had higher risk for suicide, whereas those diagnosed at younger than 25 years had increased all-cause mortality risk, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.

SAN FRANCISCO — In outpatient gynecologic settings, potential concerns may exist for over-the-phone translation services, especially for older and patients with less education, researchers reported.

Any doctor seeing patients has had to field questions unrelated to their specialty.

SAN FRANCISCO — When two-time Olympic gold medalist and FIFA World Cup champion Abby Wambach described the 3x5 victory photo taped to a wall that inspires her to this day, it was not the “win” one might expect.

SAN FRANCISCO — For second-trimester medical abortion, 12- and 24-hour mifepristone-misoprostol regimens produced similar success rates, adverse effects and satisfaction but different times to mifepristone and misoprostol fetal expulsion.

SAN FRANCISCO — TikToks about oral contraceptive health had low quality and reliability of information. Most videos were made by non-health care providers, and adverse effects of contraception was the most common topic, data show.

SAN FRANCISCO — The number of deliveries attended by DOs, nursing midwives and non-nursing midwives has increased while use of standard MDs decreased in the past several decades, especially after COVID-19, a speaker reported.

SAN FRANCISCO — Most positive content tagged to #PapSmear on TikTok is created by health care professionals, whereas almost all negative videos are created by nonmedical users of the platform.

This year’s ACOG Annual Clinical & Scientific Meeting will focus strongly on the importance of leadership to create change, providing attendees with more high-impact and fewer concurrent sessions.