Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health and the Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island; the Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; the Department of Social Medicine and Health Education, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China; and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Corresponding author: Ethan Balk, MD, MPH, Center for Evidence Synthesis and Health, Brown University School of Public Health Providence, RI; [email protected].
Financial Disclosure Alex Friedman Peahl is a paid consultant for Maven Clinic. The other authors did not report any potential conflicts of interest.
This project was funded under contract No. 75Q80120D00001/75Q80121F32005 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The authors of this manuscript are responsible for its content. Statements in this manuscript do not necessarily represent the official views of or imply endorsement by the AHRQ or HHS.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine nominated the systematic review to AHRQ, which selected the topic for systematic review by an Evidence-Based Practice Center. A representative from AHRQ served as a Contracting Officer's Technical Representative and provided technical assistance during the conduct of the full evidence report and provided comments on protocol development and draft versions of the full evidence report that formed the basis for this manuscript. AHRQ did not directly participate in the literature search, determination of study eligibility criteria, data analysis or interpretation, or preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript for publication.
The authors thank Jill Huppert, MD, MPH, our AHRQ Task Order Officer, and Anjali Jain, MD, AHRQ Medical Officer, for providing technical assistance during the conduct of the full evidence report and comments on protocol development and draft versions of the full evidence report; members of the Key Informant and Technical Expert panels for key stakeholder input during protocol development; and reviewers of our evidence report, who are listed in the AHRQ full report, in addition to reviewers of this manuscript.
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Peer reviews and author correspondence are available at https://links.lww.com/AOG/D163.
