Levels of Gynecologic Care: A Task Force Consensus Statement. 2023

Daniel Breitkopf, and Erika Banks, and David Chelmow, and Eduardo Lara-Torre, and Kelly McCue, and Tony Ogburn, and Samantha Pfeifer, and Ted Anderson, and Fidel A Valea
Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, Minnesota, New York University Long Island School of Medicine, Mineola, New York, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia, Virginia Tech-Carilion School of Medicine, Roanoke, Virginia, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Sacramento, California, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine, Edinburg, Texas, Weill-Cornell School of Medicine, New York, New York, Vanderbilt School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, and Zucker School of Medicine/Northwell Health Cancer Institute, New Hyde Park, New York.

Systems of care have been established for obstetrics, trauma, and neonatology. An American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Presidential Task Force was established to develop a care system for gynecologic surgery. A group of experts who represent diverse perspectives in gynecologic practice proposed definitions of levels of gynecologic care using the Delphi method. The goal is to improve the quality of gynecologic surgical care performed in the United States by providing a framework of minimal institutional requirements for each level. Subgroups developed draft criteria for each level of care. The entire Task Force then met to reach consensus regarding the levels of care final definitions and parameters. The levels of gynecologic care framework focuses on systems of care by considering institutional resources and expertise, providing guidance on the provision of care in appropriate level facilities. These levels were defined by the ability to care for patients of increasing risk, complexity, and comorbidities, organizing gynecologic care around hospital capability. This framework can also be used to inform the escalation of care to appropriate facilities by identifying patients at risk and guiding them to facilities with the skills, expertise, and capabilities to safely and effectively meet their needs. The levels of gynecologic care framework is intended for use by patients, hospitals, and clinicians in the United States to guide where elective surgery can be done most safely and effectively by specialists and subspecialists in obstetrics and gynecology. The key features of the levels of gynecologic care include ensuring provision of risk-appropriate care and regionalization of care by facility capabilities.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D009774 Obstetrics A medical-surgical specialty concerned with management and care of women during pregnancy, parturition, and the puerperium.
D011247 Pregnancy The status during which female mammals carry their developing young (EMBRYOS or FETUSES) in utero before birth, beginning from FERTILIZATION to BIRTH. Gestation,Pregnancies
D005260 Female Females
D006176 Gynecology A medical-surgical specialty concerned with the physiology and disorders primarily of the female genital tract, as well as female endocrinology and reproductive physiology.
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D013509 Gynecologic Surgical Procedures Surgery performed on the female genitalia. Gynecologic Surgery,Gynecologic Surgical Procedure,Gynecological Surgical Procedure,Procedure, Gynecologic Surgical,Procedures, Gynecologic Surgical,Surgery, Gynecological,Surgical Procedure, Gynecologic,Surgical Procedures, Gynecologic,Gynecologic Surgeries,Gynecological Surgeries,Gynecological Surgery,Gynecological Surgical Procedures,Procedure, Gynecological Surgical,Procedures, Gynecological Surgical,Surgeries, Gynecologic,Surgeries, Gynecological,Surgery, Gynecologic,Surgical Procedure, Gynecological,Surgical Procedures, Gynecological
D014481 United States A country in NORTH AMERICA between CANADA and MEXICO.
D026683 Advisory Committees Groups set up to advise governmental bodies, societies, or other institutions on policy. (Bioethics Thesaurus) Governmental Commissions,Review Committees,Task Forces,Advisory Committee,Commission, Governmental,Commissions, Governmental,Committee, Advisory,Committee, Review,Committees, Advisory,Committees, Review,Governmental Commission,Review Committee,Task Force
D032921 Consensus General agreement or collective opinion; the judgment arrived at by most of those concerned. Consensus Development,Development, Consensus

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