ACOG and the Plan for Appropriate Tailored Healthcare in Pregnancy (PATH) Recommendations
Prenatal care is one of the most common preventive care services in the United States and aims to improve the health of 4 million pregnant patients and their children each year. In efforts to work towards a more optimal, evidence-based approach for prenatal care delivery for average risk patients, University of Michigan—along with ACOG—convened an independent panel of maternal care experts to review the evidence regarding current prenatal care delivery (e.g., the number, frequency, modality of antenatal visits) in this population. In addition to reviewing the evidence, the panel developed and published independent recommendations entitled “Plan for Appropriate Tailored Healthcare in Pregnancy (PATH).”