Abstract
Adolescents experience some of the highest rates of unintended pregnancy among women of all reproductive age groups. And despite the fact that adolescents often receive care in pediatric hospital settings, evaluation of pregnancy risk is inconsistent. Pregnancy risk assessments can identify opportunities to deliver reproductive health services, allow earlier pregnancy diagnoses, and reduce morbidity and mortality for medically complex adolescent patients and their pregnancies. In this commentary we discuss some of the challenges and potential solutions to performing pregnancy risk assessments in pediatric hospital settings.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 251-252 |
Number of pages | 2 |
Journal | Journal of Adolescent Health |
Volume | 58 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 1 2016 |
Keywords
- Adolescent
- Pediatric hospital
- Pregnancy risk
- Pregnancy testing
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
- Psychiatry and Mental health