Neonatal Care

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Oct 18, 2024

Telelactation Use Patterns Among a Racially and Ethnically Diverse Sample of U.S. Parents: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial

Telelactation, or video visits for lactation support, can improve breastfeeding. In a study of 1052 participants randomized to receive access, usage was linked to maternal age, support from family or other sources, and breastfeeding challenges.
Jul 9, 2024

RAND Review: July-August 2024

RAND experts weigh in on geopolitical strategies, airpower capabilities, and what Sweden's accession means for NATO. A feature story explores new ways of measuring and understanding burdensharing among NATO countries and other U.S. allies.
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Jun 14, 2024

Use of and Attitudes About Telelactation Services Among New Parents

Among 1,617 new parents surveys between October 2021 and January 2022 on Ovia's parenting mobile phone application, 33.8% had at least one telelactation visit. Odds of any telelactation visit(s) were greater for parents who gave birth in 2021 versus 2019, insured by Medicaid, and younger parents.
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Jun 12, 2024

Hospital Quality Indicators for Opioid-Exposed Infants: Results From an Expert Consensus Panel

This study used an online modified Delphi process to elicit expert consensus on quality indicators for hospital-based care of opioid-exposed infants.
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Mar 13, 2024

The Infant Health Effects of Doulas: Leveraging Big Data and Machine Learning to Inform Cost-Effective Targeting

We use unique data, machine learning, and causal inference to examine doula services. We show that the benefits to infant health increase as the risk increases, demonstrating the potential to use big data to provide cost-effective support.
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May 25, 2023

Home Visiting for First-Time Parents: Community Innovation

We outline lessons from the First Born home visiting program for other universal programs, including the pros and cons of universal services, the expectation that universal programs will have population-level impact, and barriers to innovation.
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Jan 4, 2022

Standardizing the Clinical Definition of Opioid Withdrawal in the Neonate

This paper addresses challenges in clinical care, quality improvement, research, and public policy for prenatally opioid-exposed neonates by standardizing the clinical definition of opioid withdrawal.
Research

Nov 3, 2021

A Comparison of Approaches to Identify Live Births Using the Medicaid Analytic eXtract

This study described and validated five approaches to identifying births using Medicaid data.
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Oct 20, 2021

Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome Is Associated With Infant Foster Care Entry At The County Level

This study used a decade of data from U.S. counties to examine how rates of neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS) and county-level characteristics were associated with entry in the child welfare system.
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Jul 23, 2021

Informing the Development of a Standardized Clinical Definition of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: Protocol for a Modified-Delphi Expert Panel

The goal of this paper is to describe a protocol for a systematic expert panel process to inform the development of a clinical definition of neonatal abstinence syndrome.
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Jul 1, 2021

Reducing Disparities in Infant Mortality: Using Big Data to Help Babies at Risk

Black babies in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—and across America—face much higher mortality rates than white babies. Researchers pulled together thousands of data points on more than 150,000 births to better predict who is at risk and how to help.
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Feb 12, 2021

Care Management Reduced Infant Mortality for Medicaid Managed Care Enrollees in Ohio

The Ohio Department of Medicaid introduced requirements to be delivered by Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs). This study evaluated the impact of care management on reducing infant mortality in the largest Medicaid MCO in Ohio.

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Telelactation Use Patterns Among a Racially and Ethnically Diverse Sample of U.S. Parents: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial

RAND Review: July-August 2024

Use of and Attitudes About Telelactation Services Among New Parents

Hospital Quality Indicators for Opioid-Exposed Infants: Results From an Expert Consensus Panel

The Infant Health Effects of Doulas: Leveraging Big Data and Machine Learning to Inform Cost-Effective Targeting

Home Visiting for First-Time Parents: Community Innovation

Standardizing the Clinical Definition of Opioid Withdrawal in the Neonate

A Comparison of Approaches to Identify Live Births Using the Medicaid Analytic eXtract

Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome Is Associated With Infant Foster Care Entry At The County Level

Informing the Development of a Standardized Clinical Definition of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: Protocol for a Modified-Delphi Expert Panel

Reducing Disparities in Infant Mortality: Using Big Data to Help Babies at Risk

Care Management Reduced Infant Mortality for Medicaid Managed Care Enrollees in Ohio

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Telelactation Use Patterns Among a Racially and Ethnically Diverse Sample of U.S. Parents: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial

RAND Review: July-August 2024

Use of and Attitudes About Telelactation Services Among New Parents

Hospital Quality Indicators for Opioid-Exposed Infants: Results From an Expert Consensus Panel

The Infant Health Effects of Doulas: Leveraging Big Data and Machine Learning to Inform Cost-Effective Targeting

Home Visiting for First-Time Parents: Community Innovation

Standardizing the Clinical Definition of Opioid Withdrawal in the Neonate

A Comparison of Approaches to Identify Live Births Using the Medicaid Analytic eXtract

Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome Is Associated With Infant Foster Care Entry At The County Level

Informing the Development of a Standardized Clinical Definition of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: Protocol for a Modified-Delphi Expert Panel

Reducing Disparities in Infant Mortality: Using Big Data to Help Babies at Risk

Care Management Reduced Infant Mortality for Medicaid Managed Care Enrollees in Ohio

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