title: 'We have to do more': physicians seek to reduce preterm birth rate.
abstract: Physicians are working to reduce preterm birth and its devastating consequences. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists calls the prevention of preterm births, including late preterm deliveries, a public health priority. TMA's House of Delegates adopted a recommendation in 2009 to support the prevention of iatrogenic prematurity (caused by deliberately delivering a baby early) by physicians and others who attend at the delivery of infants.
authors.affiliation: crystal.conde@texmed.org
authors.forename: Crystal
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Conde
mesh_terms: D001723:Birth Rate; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature; D010820:Physicians; D047928:Premature Birth; D013781:Texas