%0 Journal Article
%T The Prevalence and Payer Costs of Potentially Avoidable Emergent Care Visits for Suspected Amniotic Membrane Rupture in Pregnant Women
%A Bruce S. Pyenson
%A Chi-Wei Lu
%A Christine Ferro
%A Gloria Bachmann
%A Jocelyn Lau
%A Mona Kelkar
%A Nancy Phillips
%A Percy Yeung
%J Archive of "American Health & Drug Benefits".
%D 2018
%X Concern over amniotic fluid leakage is common among pregnant women. Uncertainty about prelabor rupture of amniotic membranes (PROM) can lead women to present to emergency departments or to labor and delivery units for medical evaluation. Many of such visits do not result in delivery, yet they carry significant, and potentially unnecessary, healthcare expenditures
%K amniotic fluid leakage
%K avoidable costs
%K emergent care visits
%K labor and delivery
%K payer costs
%K prelabor rupture of amniotic membranes
%K self-monitoring suspected PROM
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6207302/