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

In our rural population matched for contemporaneous delivery and parity, we found no difference in traditional perinatal outcome measures and that group care was positively associated with the key public health variables of not smoking and initiating breastfeeding. If future studies in other populations have similar findings, it may be wise to provide group care more widely to rural populations.