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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. 2023. Postpartum care . Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Medicaid, n.a.

Annotation: This website recommends a series of postpartum visits to ensure the health of mother and baby and provides technical resource tools for improving the quality of care during the postpartum period. Intended to support state Medicaid and CHIP agencies’ efforts to provide quality care, the site provides links to quality improvement (QI) materials that include both documents and videos. The site also describes the "Improving Postpartum Care learning collaborative," launched by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in 2021 to support state Medicaid and CHIP agencies’ efforts to improve health outcomes among postpartum people. Included are links to associated webinars and to the Postpartum Care Action Learning Series created in 2013-2014.

Keywords: Postpartum care, Puerperium, Postpartum women, Program improvement. Quality assurance

Bernstein HH. 2002. Life around newborn discharge (LAND): Final report. Boston, MA: Children's Hospital Boston, 27 pp.

Annotation: This final report describes the Life Around Newborn Discharge (LAND) study designed to examine mothers', pediatricians', and obstetricians' judgments of readiness for postpartum discharge. It identifies the components of practitioner judgment or family readiness for discharge and then relates these judgments to health care utilization, health-related behaviors, and infant and maternal health status during the first month of the infant's life. Report contents include sections on the nature, purpose, scope, and methods of the study; a review of the literature; a description of the study design and methods; and the presentation and discussion of findings, including limitations/distortion, application to healthcare delivery, and future research. The report also contains a list of products, references, and tables of statistics. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Final reports, Infant health, MCH research, Neonatal screening, Newborn infants, Patient discharge, Postpartum women, Puerperium
   

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