Patients who received maternal care through telehealth had similar, and occasionally better, outcomes than those who received in-person care only, according to a study published in Annals of Internal Medicine.
Maternal mortality, morbidity and near misses “are unacceptably high” in the United States, “despite exceedingly high costs,” Amy G. Cantor, MD, MPH, a family physician who specializes in primary care for women at the Pacific Northwest Evidence-based Practice Center in Portland, Oregon, and colleagues wrote. The numbers only worsened during the pandemic, with