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Helping Mothers Select Better Childbirth Hospitals

NCT02987803 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 120621

Last updated 2021-10-29

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The investigators aim to conduct a randomized controlled trial of women who are pregnant or considering pregnancy to understand whether women provided with specific data on hospital-level cesarean delivery rates are more likely to select higher quality hospitals, defined as hospitals with cesarean delivery rates below the Federal HealthyPeople 2020 target of 23.9%.

Conditions

  • Cesarean Section

Interventions

OTHER

Data

The tool displays star ratings of hospitals on how labor-friendly they are. The star ratings (1 through 5) are based on hospital-level cesarean delivery rates. The data comes from The Leapfrog Group and is supplemented by publicly available state data. The data displayed will be customized to the users geographic location.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Harvard Medical School (HMS and HSDM)

    collaborator OTHER

  • Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ateev Mehrotra, MD, MPH · Harvard Medical School (HMS and HSDM)

  • Neel Shah, MD, MPP · Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-08-15
Primary Completion
2021-06-30
Completion
2021-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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