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Scaling up Maternal Health Equity Best Practices

Not Applicable
Recruiting
Conditions
Maternal Mortality Disparities
Maternal Morbidity Disparities
Interventions
Other: Scale-up implementation approach
Other: Services as usual
Registration Number
NCT06541951
Lead Sponsor
Michigan State University
Brief Summary

This study works with prenatal and postnatal care providers in 12 Michigan counties to scale up best practices for maternal health equity.

Detailed Description

The project recruits prenatal and postnatal care providers in 12 Michigan counties. his project will develop and test a scale-up focused implementation approach for addressing pregnancy-related and -associated morbidity and mortality (PRAMM) disparities. Previous efforts have shown that use of hospital- focused maternal safety bundles are an important part of successful efforts to reduce PRAMM. However, overall quality of obstetric care improved in these efforts without any effect on disparities. Thus, unlike previous efforts, the proposed project will implement quality improvement bundles that: (1) focus on PRAMM disparities; and (2) focus on community care (i.e., care provided outside the hospital in outpatient and other community settings) and coordination among care settings. Given that 83% of U.S. pregnancy-related and pregnancy-associated deaths occur during pregnancy or postpartum (rather than around the time of delivery), outpatient and community efforts are vital. Bundles (the evidence-based practices to be implemented) are developed by the national Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health Community Care Initiative (AIM-CCI), and include "Community care for postpartum safety and wellness," and "Community care for maternal mental health," "Chronic conditions," and "Intimate partner violence" bundles. All bundles target PRAMM disparities. • Aim 1 of the proposed project will analyze bundle implementation experiences in 2 counties to develop a county-wide scale-up focused implementation approach for the bundles in partnership with stakeholders date to create and manualize a scale-up implementation intervention. • Aim 2 will evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the scale-up implementation intervention using a stepped wedge design in 12 Michigan counties with a total population of nearly 6 million people. PRAMM outcomes (individual level) will be extracted from a pre-existing statewide linked dataset. The sample for these analyses will include all Medicaid insured individuals in the 12 counties observed during pregnancy, at birth, and up to 1 year postpartum during the project period (\~151,920 births, including \~49,110 births to African American and/or Hispanic mothers). Implementation outcomes (provider-level) include scale-up (penetration, reach, control for delivery, and intervention effectiveness at scale) and sustainment (maintenance of fidelity to core elements, health benefits, and capacity to deliver core elements over time). This project is innovative because it: (1) is the first controlled implementation trial to test approaches to implementing quality improvement bundles that: (a) specifically target PRAMM disparities; and (b) focus on community care; (2) advances the science of scale-up (it is the first study to test scale- up or sustainment implementation approaches to addressing maternal morbidity/mortality disparities); and (3) works to improve services across many (vs. a single) health systems. The project is significant because the field needs to reach pregnant people at scale, and scale-up is an understudied aspect of implementation science.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
600
Inclusion Criteria

-Be a provider or staff person at agencies offering prenatal and/or postnatal services in Wayne, Oakland, Ingham, Isabella, Macomb, Muskegon, Calhoun, Jackson, Saginaw, Kalamazoo, Barrien, or Washtenaw counties in Michigan.

Provider

Exclusion Criteria
  • None

Patient outcomes are assessed through population-level Medicaid data, without direct recruitment.

Patient Inclusion criteria:

-All pregnant or postpartum (up to 12 months) people receiving Medicaid in Michigan

Patient Exclusion criteria:

-None

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
SEQUENTIAL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Scale-up implementation approachScale-up implementation approachAn implementation approach for scaling up bundled equity-focused maternal health safety guidelines in community care settings county-wide, co-developed with partners.
Services as usualServices as usualServices as usual before maternal health equity implementation efforts
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
African-American and Hispanic pregnancy-related and associated morbidity and mortality (PRAMM)Continuous for 6 years

A composite variable reflecting all pregnancy-related and associated morbidity and mortality conditions from pregnancy through 12 months postpartum, assessed using Medicaid claims data. The investigators will assess overall rates for African-American/Hispanic people and their rates relative to non-Hispanic white ones.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Sustainment: FidelityAnnually for 6 years

Fidelity to core elements at each time point as assessed through provider behavior assessed using a self-reported y/n responses to a checklist of activities

Index (y/n) that is yes if there is any African-American and Hispanic severe maternal morbidity or pregnancy-associated mortalityContinuous for 6 years

These will be assessed during pregnancy and through one-year postpartum using state Medicaid claims records and death records. The investigators will assess overall rates and rates relative to non-Hispanic white people.

Scale-up: Control for deliveryAssessed annually for 6 years

The degree to which control for delivery shifts to local actors and the practices are embedded in local delivery systems

Scale-up: EffectivenessAssessed annually for 6 years

Effectiveness is retained as the intervention is scaled: Operationalized using outcome 1 (PRAMM) analyses.

Cost of implementation approachesContinuous over 6 years

Cost via our grant accounting

Cost-effectiveness of implementation approachesContinuous over 6 years

The primary cost-effectiveness measure will be non-severe maternal morbidity, calculating intervention costs per point of score reduction. Secondary cost-effectiveness measures will be severe maternal morbidity and maternal mortality. Prevented severe maternal morbidity (SMM) will be also monetized using Medicaid claims data by calculating the difference between Medicaid delivery expenditures between women/birthing persons with SMM and without SMM using our own claims data and prior estimates. The value of a statistical life, currently around $10 million, will be used to monetize prevented maternal deaths.

Scale-up: ReachAssessed annually for 6 years

Number of perinatal people receiving recommended practices

Sustainment: Health benefitsAnnually for 6 years

Health benefits continuing over time: Operationalized as the slope of PRAMM annually after the county moves into the "intervention phase of the stepped wedge design

Sustainment: CapacityAnnually for 6 years

Capacity continues over time. Operationalized as the slope of capacity annually after the county moves into the "intervention" phase of the stepped wedge design

Scale-up: PenetrationAssessed annually for 6 years

Penetration (% providers/staff using recommended maternal health equity practices)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Michigan State University on behalf on 12 Michigan counties

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Flint, Michigan, United States

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