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To learn how hospital labor and delivery units can achieve effective and sustainable teamwork practices and how much such practices affect staff experiences and patient outcomes, RAND researchers studied five units as they implemented improvements in their teamwork practices over a one-year period. They identified some key factors required by any given strategy for teamwork improvement but no standard template for implementation.
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The Guatemalan Survey of Family Health was designed to examine the way in which rural Guatemalan families and individuals cope with childhood illness and pregnancy, and the role of ethnicity, poverty, social support, and health beliefs in this process.
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There is strong evidence that pain is undertreated in black and Hispanic patients.
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Support for WIC, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, is based on the belief that WIC works.
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The policy debate over prenatal substance exposure (PSE) is highly contentious and polarized.
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Efforts to improve the care of depression in primary care patients have largely ignored the potential of obstetrics/gynecology (OB/GYN) practices.
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Determine the influence of a state's legal environment and a hospital's Prenatal Substance Exposure (PSE) protocol on physicians' propensity to respond when prenatal substance exposure is suspected.
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Only half of coded protocols included an implementation date; 37% lacked any goal or statement of purpose.
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Provides an overview of the standardized measures that the Mental Health Care for Child Crime Victims Standards of Care Task Force thinks useful for assessing trauma in children and their families.
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This volume focuses on indicators for care of children and adolescents.
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This study uses natality data from 1983 to 1996 to examine the relationship between a state's eligibility threshold for Medicaid and birth rates among various groups.
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This report presents an overview of the current state of knowledge regarding the effect of cocaine on the developing brain and offers policy considerations for addressing the issues that arise from cocaine use by pregnant women.
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A number of studies have demonstrated that active management of labor shortens labor and reduces the rate of caesarian deliveries, without increasing adverse outcomes.
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In 1996, California proposed regulations to eliminate publicly funded prenatal care for undocumented immigrants.
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In combating crime in America, little attention has been paid to keeping children from becoming criminals. What benefit might be realized from such an approach, and at what cost?
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This report finds that prenatal care in Jamaica, while generally available, provides care to many women who are at particular risk because of parity, age and poverty.