Table 8 Terms and abbreviations

AIM-CCI

the national Alliance for Innovation on Maternal health Community Care Initiative

B/H

Black orHispanic

CDC

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Community care

Care provided outside the hospital in outpatient and other community settings, and coordination among care settings

ICD-10

International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision

IHI-FS

Institute for Healthcare Improvement Framework for Going to Full Scale (project implementation framework)

MDHHS data warehouse

Michigan Dept of Health and Human Services Health Services Data Warehouse includes prenatal, birth, and postnatal Medicaid claims linked to enhanced prenatal care screening data and birth/death records

MIRACLE Center

Maternal Health Multilevel Interventions for Racial Equity (U54 HD113291) is one of the Maternal Health Centers of Excellence [79] funded through NIH’s IMPROVE Initiative. The Center evaluates population-level effects of three interventions taking place in counties across Michigan on PRAMM equity

NIH

National Institutes of Health

NIH IMPROVE Initiative

Implementing a Maternal Health and Pregnancy Outcomes Vision for Everyone maternal health equity initiative

NHW

Non-Hispanic white

PI

Principal investigator

PRAMM

Pregnancy-related and -associated morbidity and mortality, pregnancy through 12 months postpartum. It includes severe maternal morbidity (SMM), non-severe maternal morbidity (NSMM), and pregnancy associated conditions like homicide, overdose, suicide. It is a broad measure of maternal health and includes all the following

Non-severe maternal morbidity (NSMM)

any health condition attributed to or complicating pregnancy or childbirth that have a negative impact on the woman’s well-being and functioning (e.g., gestational hypertension, obstetric complications, infections, mental health disorders, endocrine, nutritional, & metabolic diseases). [12, 66, 67]

Severe maternal morbidity (SMM)

unexpected outcomes of labor and delivery that result in significant short- or long-term consequences to a woman’s health (e.g., eclampsia). [8, 13]

Pregnancy-associated mortality

Any death during pregnancy or 12 months postpartum. Includes suicide, homicide, overdose, and all pregnancy-related mortality (see below)

Pregnancy-related mortality

Death during pregnancy or 12 months postpartum from pregnancy complication, chain of events initiated by pregnancy, or aggravation of an unrelated condition by the physiologic effects of pregnancy.

Safety bundle

Small set of evidence-based guidelines or interventions [80,81,82]

U.S.

United States