TY - JOUR
T1 - Credentialing Internal Medicine Physicians to Expand Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive Access
AU - Michener, Jennifer L.
AU - Hirsh, David A.
AU - Batur, Pelin
AU - Casas, Rachel S.
AU - Gopinath, Vidya
AU - Pace, Lydia E.
AU - Prifti, Christine
AU - Rusiecki, Jennifer
AU - Schwarz, Eleanor Bimla
AU - Shankar, Megha
AU - Sobota, Mindy
AU - Kwolek, Deborah Gomez
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023/8/1
Y1 - 2023/8/1
N2 - Contraceptive care is a fundamental clinical service and is particularly important for medically complex patients who seek this care from their PCP (4). With training, IM physicians can become qualified to place, manage, and remove LARCs. Unfortunately, we observed wide variations in credentialing requirements for IM physicians who seek to offer LARC care; thus, PCPs face barriers to LARC provision in many communities (3). These barriers are unnecessary given the safety of LARC procedures, especially when compared with that of typical IM core privileges (1, 7, 8). Credentialing decisions should be informed by procedure type and prior experience. Given the national crisis of reproductive health care after the Supreme Court's ruling in Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization, there is an urgent need to streamline credentialing and increase provision of contraceptive services by IMphysicians.
AB - Contraceptive care is a fundamental clinical service and is particularly important for medically complex patients who seek this care from their PCP (4). With training, IM physicians can become qualified to place, manage, and remove LARCs. Unfortunately, we observed wide variations in credentialing requirements for IM physicians who seek to offer LARC care; thus, PCPs face barriers to LARC provision in many communities (3). These barriers are unnecessary given the safety of LARC procedures, especially when compared with that of typical IM core privileges (1, 7, 8). Credentialing decisions should be informed by procedure type and prior experience. Given the national crisis of reproductive health care after the Supreme Court's ruling in Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization, there is an urgent need to streamline credentialing and increase provision of contraceptive services by IMphysicians.
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U2 - 10.7326/M23-1034
DO - 10.7326/M23-1034
M3 - Review article
C2 - 37523694
AN - SCOPUS:85169918304
SN - 0003-4819
VL - 176
SP - 1121
EP - 1123
JO - Annals of internal medicine
JF - Annals of internal medicine
IS - 8
ER -