Group Prenatal Care vs. Traditional Prenatal Care: A Parity-Matched Comparison of Perinatal Outcomes in a Rural Community

We provide a comprehensive table comparing previous studies of group care with a focus on differences in the populations studied. Ours is the first to provide perinatal outcomes from a rural population in the US and only the second to match for parity, a key predictor. Our groups were smaller than previous reports, but our complete matching on parity and contemporaneous delivery of the control group  are strengths. We found no difference in traditional perinatal outcome, but group care patients reported higher rates of breastfeeding and not smoking, a difference only found in two previous urban-based reports.