An Evaluation of the Team Birth Project

President and Fellows of Harvard College

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cesarean Section Complications; Pregnancy Complications; Maternal Complication of Pregnancy; Communication, Multidisciplinary

Treatments: Behavioral: Exposed study site

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03529214

IRB18-0550

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility of a pilot project to improve communication and teamwork and to increase vaginal delivery rates at hospital in the United States

Enrollment: 5,217 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Clinician Participant Inclusion Criteria:

• All clinicians who have practice privileges at a study site

Clinician Participant Exclusion Criteria:

• None

Implementation Team Participant Inclusion Criteria:

• Champions, super-users and others who have been involved in the implementation of "Team Birth Project" at a study site

Implementation Team Participant Exclusion Criteria:

• None

Patient Participant Inclusion Criteria:

• 18 years or older
• Live birth. Includes: spontaneous or induction of labor; Vaginally, with an instruments (forceps / vacuum), or unscheduled cesarean delivery
• Patient at a study site piloting "Team Birth Project"

Patient Participant Exclusion Criteria:

• Under 18 years old
• Scheduled cesarean delivery
• Experienced intrapartum, stillbirth, or neonatal death

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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5,217 participants in 1 patient group

Implemented Health Facility

Other group

Description:

Health facility that has piloted the "Team Birth Project"

Treatment:

Behavioral: Exposed study site