Key result
A review of the ACOG Task Force on Hypertension in Pregnancy guidelines identified several pitfalls, including limited practical use, conflicting recommendations, and high resource utilization.
This review highlights practical limitations and inconsistencies in the ACOG guidelines for hypertension in pregnancy, suggesting areas for improvement for clinicians.
May warrant caution applying ACOG hypertension guidelines due to inconsistencies; leaves open need for refined recommendations.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Task Force on Hypertension in Pregnancy was created to evaluate the existing literature, develop practice guidelines, and identify areas for future research focus. Several issues were identified that may not have been initially obvious during the process of developing this document, including limited practical use, a lack of high quality literature, conflicting recommendations, a potential for high resource utilization, need for continually updated information, and little headway in research that is clinically useful. The purpose of this review was to make suggestions to improving these guidelines' overall usefulness and consistency for the busy clinician.
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Pauli et al. (2016) conducted a review in Hypertension in Pregnancy. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Task Force on Hypertension in Pregnancy guidelines was evaluated. A review of the ACOG Task Force on Hypertension in Pregnancy guidelines identified several pitfalls, including limited practical use, conflicting recommendations, and high resource utilization.
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