Co-author: Dani Bradley, MPH

These data come from a survey of 2,212 pregnant women in the United States conducted March 25-27.

We wanted to provide needed education and help women make decisions. Over 76,000 women used our tool in the first 72 hours.

This post first appeared on Statnews.com on March 5, 2020.

Our challenge is to create largely from scratch a surveillance system — what exists today is inadequate — for the first signs of conditions that kill women and to encourage families and the primary care health system to recognize the signs of trouble and raise warning flags.

For 16 years, the standard of care for pregnant women with a history of preterm delivery has been a weekly injection of progesterone. It still is, but after recent activity at the FDA and at ACOG, the future of therapy for preterm delivery seems very much in doubt.

The big unknown is how this research translates into the real-world practice of obstetrics at small and mid-sized hospitals.