Impoverished and rural communities face significant disparities in the prenatal detection of critical congenital heart disease, highlighting the need for targeted interventions.
While the prenatal diagnostic rate for critical congenital heart disease is improving, those living in impoverished or rural communities are at highest risk of not having a diagnosis made prenatally. Interventions to improve prenatal detection of congenital heart disease should target these vulnerable areas.
Hill et al. (Tue,) studied this question.