title: Centering Pregnancy: practical tips for your practice.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  With increased access to care, current health delivery systems will need expansion to meet higher demands and needs.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To define Centering Pregnancy and practical tips for implementation into both private and academic practices.
  Evidence was gathered through literature reviews.
  
  
  RESULTS
  It was found that Centering Pregnancy offers a patient-centered, evidence-based approach to helping with access issues, as well as improving outcomes.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This article describes the benefits of Centering Pregnancy to the practice, the provider, and the patient.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Practical implementation tips will be offered, with suggestions for negating common implementation barriers.
authors.affiliation: OBGYN Residency Program, Florida State University College of Medicine, Pensacola, Florida, Julie.decesare@med.fsu.edu.
authors.forename: Julie Z
authors.initials: JZ
authors.lastname: DeCesare
authors.forename: Jessica R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Jackson
mesh_terms: D055317:Evidence-Based Practice; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009035:Mothers / Q000193:education*; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000458:organization & administration*; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011247:Pregnancy; D011295:Prenatal Care / Q000379:methods*