ArticleMaternal and child health journal2022
Improving Postpartum Care: Identifying Opportunities to Reduce Postpartum Emergency Room Visits Among Publicly-Insured Women of Color.
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- Home Visits and the Use of Routine and Emergency Postpartum Care Among Low-Income People: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2024Trial
- Postpartum care receipt among parents of infants admitted to a freestanding children's hospital neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2026Article
- Medicaid Continuous Coverage Requirement and Postpartum Hospitalization.JAMA health forum · 2026Article
- The Relationship Between Provider and Patient Racial Concordance and Receipt of Postpartum Care.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- Perinatal healthcare access, perceived quality, and preferences among historically underrepresented mother-infant dyads: a mixed methods study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Observational
- Health insurance, race, and receipt of a postpartum visit among patients giving birth in a referral hospital in the US South.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2025Article
- Postpartum Acute Care Utilization in a Health Care System in the Southeastern United States.Journal of women's health (2002) · 2025Article
- Racism and Postpartum Blood Pressure in a Multiethnic Prospective Cohort.Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) · 2025Article
- Identifying Health Systems Gaps as Perceived by Postpartum Patient Navigators at an Urban Academic Medical Center.Women's health reports (New Rochelle, N.Y.) · 2025Article
- Postpartum Emergency Care Visits Among North Carolina Medicaid Beneficiaries, 2013-2019.Journal of women's health (2002) · 2024Article
- Healthcare Experiences of Black Patients During and After Pregnancy: a Needs Assessment for Provider Training to Improve Quality of Care.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2024Article
- Acute health care utilization in the first 24 months postpartum by rurality and pregnancy complications: A prospective cohort study.Health services research · 2024Article
- Understanding categories of postpartum care use among privately insured patients in the United States: a cluster-analytic approach.Health affairs scholar · 2023Article
- Comparison of Emergency Department Use Between Pregnant People With and Without Disabilities in Ontario, Canada.JAMA network open · 2023Article
- Patient Sociodemographics and Comorbidities and Birth Hospital Characteristics Associated With Postpartum Emergency Department Care.JAMA network open · 2023Article
- Evaluating the statewide expansion of an educational intervention to address urgent maternal warning signs.Women's health (London, England)Observational
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Abstract
BACKGROUND/
objectivesThe purpose of this study was to explore the postpartum experiences of publicly-insured women of color, and identify how postpartum care can be improved to reduce hospital emergency department usage after delivery.
methodsWe conducted four focus groups with 18 publicly-insured women who primarily self-identified as Black and/or Latina and gave birth between June 1, 2019 and May 1, 2020. We used inductive qualitative analysis to identify prominent themes from focus group discussions.
resultsWe identified four domains: (1) lack of access to and communication with a medical team; (2) lack of preparation; (3) value of social support; and (4) participant-identified opportunities for improvement. CONCLUSIONS FOR PRACTICE: This study describes the postpartum experiences of publicly-insured women of color with the objective of identifying areas for intervention to reduce postpartum emergency department usage. Our findings suggest that focused efforts on enhancing continuity of care to increase healthcare access, strengthening patient-provider communication by training providers to recognize unconscious bias, increasing postpartum preparation by adapting teaching materials to an online format, and engaging women's caregivers throughout the pregnancy course to bolster social support, may be beneficial.
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