ArticleMaternal and child health journal2015
Effects of maternity care coordination on pregnancy outcomes: propensity-weighted analyses.
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- Systems Factors Contributing to Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Maternal Health: A Systematic Review.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Pooled it
- The prevalence of mental health-related multimorbidity during pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2026Pooled it
- Reproductive Health of Women Veterans: A Systematic Review of the Literature from 2008 to 2017.Seminars in reproductive medicine · 2018Pooled it
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- Perinatal Quality Collaboratives and Patient Safety Bundles: Key Contributors to Improving Maternal Health Care Quality across the United States.Obstetrics and gynecology clinics of North America · 2026Review
- Neonatal impact of maternal biomarker screening for risk of preterm birth with targeted interventions (PRIME): A multicenter, randomized, controlled trial.Pregnancy (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2026Article
- Prenatal Care Coordination and Well-Child Visit Receipt in Early Childhood.Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM · 2025Article
- Explaining Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Hypertension and Diabetes during Pregnancy in the United States (2016-2022): A Decomposition Analysis.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- Preventing Infant Mortality Through Medicaid-Administered Prenatal Care Coordination: Evidence From Wisconsin.Health services research · 2025Article
- Health workers' perspectives on self-monitoring of blood pressure by pregnant women: a qualitative study among community health workers, midwives, doctors and health system managers in Lombok, Indonesia.BMJ global health · 2025Article
- Estimating the impact of prenatal health care services on adverse pregnancy outcomes in Tanzania: a propensity score matching approach.Frontiers in global women's health · 2025Article
- The feasibility of implementing a digital pregnancy and postpartum support program in the Midwestern United States and the association with maternal and infant health.Preventive medicine reports · 2025Article
- Racial and Geographic Variation of Prenatal Care Coordination Receipt in the State of Wisconsin, 2010-2019.Journal of community health · 2024Article
- Should case management be considered a component of obstetrical interventions for pregnancies at risk of preterm birth?American journal of obstetrics and gynecology · 2023Review
- The effects of adherence to recommended antenatal services on adverse pregnancy outcomes in Northwest Ethiopia: multilevel and propensity score matching (PSM) modeling.Frontiers in global women's health · 2023Article
- Melanated Group Midwifery Care: Centering the Voices of the Black Birthing Community.Journal of midwifery & women's health · 2022Article
- County-level correlates of dental service utilization for low income pregnant women. Ecologic study of the North Carolina Medicaid for Pregnant Women (MPW) program.BMC health services research · 2021Article
- Cost-Effectiveness of a Proteomic Test for Preterm Birth Prediction.ClinicoEconomics and outcomes research : CEOR · 2021Article
- The impact of the Medicaid high-risk ob care management program in New York State.Health services research · 2020Article
- Estimating the effect of Prenatal Care Coordination in Wisconsin: A sibling fixed effects analysis.Health services research · 2020Article
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Abstract
Care coordination services that link pregnant women to health-promoting resources, avoid duplication of effort, and improve communication between families and providers have been endorsed as a strategy for reducing disparities in adverse pregnancy outcomes, however empirical evidence regarding the effects of these services is contradictory and incomplete. This study investigates the effects of maternity care coordination (MCC) on pregnancy outcomes in North Carolina. Birth certificate and Medicaid claims data were analyzed for 7,124 women delivering live infants in North Carolina from October 2008 through September 2010, of whom 2,255 received MCC services. Propensity-weighted analyses were conducted to reduce the influence of selection bias in evaluating program participation. Sensitivity analyses compared these results to conventional ordinary least squares analyses. The unadjusted preterm birth rate was lower among women who received MCC services (7.0 % compared to 8.3 % among controls). Propensity-weighted analyses demonstrated that women receiving services had a 1.8 % point reduction in preterm birth risk; p < 0.05). MCC services were also associated with lower pregnancy weight gain (p = 0.10). No effects of MCC were seen for birthweight. These findings suggest that coordination of care in pregnancy can significantly reduce the risk of preterm delivery among Medicaid-enrolled women. Further research evaluating specific components of care coordination services and their effects on preterm birth risk among racial/ethnic and geographic subgroups of Medicaid enrolled mothers could inform efforts to reduce disparities in pregnancy outcome.
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