ArticleBMJ sexual & reproductive health2024
Preconception health risk factors documented in general practice electronic medical records.
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- Primary care providers' perspectives on barriers and enablers influencing preconception care provision for African migrant and refugee women: qualitative interviews.Health promotion international · 2026Article
- Knowledge, attitudes, and needs concerning fertility and preconceptional health in Germany-insights from a pilot survey.Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946) · 2026Article
- Preconception health risk profiles among women planning pregnancy in northern Ethiopia: a latent class analysis.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Challenges faced by healthcare providers in implementing preconception care for women with diabetes in public health clinics in Malaysia - A qualitative study.BMC primary care · 2025Article
- Medication prescribing and pregnancy-related risk factors for women with type 2 diabetes of reproductive age within primary care: a cross-sectional investigation for the PREPARED study.BMJ open diabetes research & care · 2025Article
- Family Planning and Preconception Care Service Management: The Key Role of Bulgarian GPs.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Preconception health in adolescence and adulthood across generations in the UK: Findings from three British birth cohort studies.PloS one · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundDocumenting medical and lifestyle preconception health risk factors in electronic medical records (EMRs) could assist general practitioners (GPs) to identify those reproductive-aged women who could most benefit from preconception care (PCC). However, it is unclear to what extent PCC risk factors are identifiable in general practice records. This study aimed to determine the extent to which medical and lifestyle preconception health risk factors are documented in general practice EMRs.
methodsWe conducted an audit of the documentation of medical and lifestyle preconception risk factors in 10 general practice EMRs in Melbourne, Australia. We retrospectively analysed the EMRs of 100 consecutive women aged 18-44 years who visited each practice between January and September 2022. Using a template informed by PCC guidelines, we extracted data from structured fields in the EMR and conducted a descriptive analysis.
resultsAmong the data extracted, the more commonly documented medical and lifestyle preconception health risk factors in the EMRs included smoking (79%), blood pressure (74%), alcohol consumption (63%) and body mass index (57%). Among the women audited, 14% were smokers, 24% were obese, 7% had high blood pressure, 5% had diabetes, 28% had a mental health condition, 13% had asthma, 6% had thyroid disease and 17% had been prescribed and could be using a potentially teratogenic medication.
conclusionsBetter documentation of medical and lifestyle preconception health risk factors in structured fields in EMRs may potentially assist primary care providers including GPs in identifying and providing PCC to women who could most benefit from it.
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