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Simmons Ballroom 2
Tuesday, October 30, 2007: 3:00 PM-4:00 PM

F4: F-4 Improving Delivery of Preconception Care in Clinical Settings

This session includes formative research on the knowledge, attitudes, and practice behaviors of health care providers regarding management of diabetes before and during pregnancy (Atlanta, Georgia), while another study reports on the attitudes of Israeli gynecologists regarding preconception counseling overall (Haifa, Israel). The Atlanta study also assessed the perceived barriers to management of diabetes during pregnancy in women with gestational diabetes and pre-existing diabetes before pregnancy. The session also includes two innovative studies that may prove promising in improving delivery of high quality preconception counseling to women at risk. One study developed evidence-based clinician recommendations for 14 priority preconception risks and made them available online to Kaiser Permanente clinicians (Oakland, CA). The other combined techniques and strategies from a model called Centering Pregnancy along with the CDC Recommendations to Improve Preconception Health and Health Care to develop a Group Model for the delivery of preconception care (Cheshire, CT).
Moderator:R. Louise Floyd
3:00 PM170Atlanta Health Care Providers' and Women's Perceived Barriers to the Management of Diabetes during Pregnancy
Jennifer Williams, Patricia Mersereau, Sarah Collier, Celene Mulholland, Khadija Turay, Christine Prue
3:10 PM171Developing Online Preconception Clinical Recommendations for Physicians in an Integrated Health Care System
Lorinda Hartwell, Ruth Shaber, Debbie Postlethwaite
3:20 PM172Innovative Design: Preconception Care Using the Group Care Model
Ashlesha K. Dayal, Janice Hackney, Nancy E. Devore, Sharon S. Rising, Peter S. Bernstein
3:30 PM173The Attitude of Israeli Gynaecologists Regarding Preconception Counseling
Shlomit Riskin-Mashiah, Ron Auslander

The 2nd National Summit on Preconception Health and Health Care of CDC