title: If You Do Not Ask, They Will Not Tell: Evaluating Pregnancy Risk in Young Women in Pediatric Hospitals.
abstract: Adolescents experience some of the highest rates of unintended pregnancy among women of all reproductive age groups. And despite the fact that adolescents often receive care in pediatric hospital settings, evaluation of pregnancy risk is inconsistent. Pregnancy risk assessments can identify opportunities to deliver reproductive health services, allow earlier pregnancy diagnoses, and reduce morbidity and mortality for medically complex adolescent patients and their pregnancies. In this commentary we discuss some of the challenges and potential solutions to performing pregnancy risk assessments in pediatric hospital settings.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: mandrake76@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Mandy S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Coles
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, Texas.
authors.forename: May
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lau
authors.affiliation: The Craig Dalsimer Division of Adolescent Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
authors.forename: Aletha Y
authors.initials: AY
authors.lastname: Akers
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011258:Pregnancy Tests; D049168:Pregnancy, Unplanned; D018570:Risk Assessment
keywords: Adolescent; Pediatric hospital; Pregnancy risk; Pregnancy testing