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name: prenatal-assessment
description: Use when asked to administer, score, or explain a Prenatal Assessment — general antenatal evaluation with Low/Moderate/High risk stratification — grounded in FormExamples/form-examples; related to obstetrics-assessment.
---

# Prenatal Assessment

Antenatal evaluation covering pregnancy details, obstetric history,
vital signs, laboratory results, and mental health screening, with risk
stratification.

## Scoring

**Instrument:** Risk Stratification. Low (uncomplicated pregnancy),
Moderate (risk factors requiring monitoring), High (significant risk
factors requiring specialist referral).

## What it covers

Demographics; pregnancy details; obstetric history; medical history;
current symptoms; vital signs; laboratory results; lifestyle and
nutrition; mental health screening; and birth plan preferences.

## Relationship to obstetrics-assessment

This is a more general antenatal evaluation with a simpler Low/
Moderate/High categorization; [[obstetrics-assessment]] applies the
more formal NICE NG201 framework for pathway allocation. Check which
level of formality a given context needs.

## Common pitfalls

- **Fixing risk stratification at one visit** — pregnancy risk can
  change as it progresses; reassess at each significant milestone
  rather than relying on an early categorization throughout.
- **Skipping mental health screening** — perinatal mental health
  screening is a standard, not optional, part of antenatal care.
- **Missing lifestyle and nutrition review** — modifiable factors here
  (diet, substance use, supplementation) materially affect outcomes and
  are easy to under-elicit without structured questions.

## Learn more

- [FormExamples: prenatal-assessment](https://github.com/FormExamples/form-examples/tree/main/forms/prenatal-assessment) for the full implementation, clinical references, and worked examples.
- [[obstetrics-assessment]] for the related, NICE-NG201-aligned counterpart.