About this trial
This project-also known as "Accountability for Care through Undoing Racism \& Equity for Moms" or ACURE4Moms-aims to reduce Black-White maternal health disparities using multi-level interventions designed to decrease bias in prenatal care, improve care coordination, and increase social support. ACURE4Moms is a pragmatic 4-arm cluster randomized controlled trial conducted with 39 prenatal practices across North Carolina. Practices have been randomly assigned to receive either: Arm 1 (Standard Care): North Carolina Medicaid Care management for high-risk pregnancies; Arm 2 (Data Accountability and Transparency): North Carolina Medicaid Care Management + Practice-level Data Accountability interventions; Arm 3 (Community-Based Doula Support): North Carolina Medicaid Care Management + Community-Based Doula support intervention for high-risk patients during pregnancy and postpartum; or Arm 4 (Data Accountability and Transparency + Community-Based Doula Support): North Carolina Medicaid Care Management + Both Arms 2 and 3 interventions. During each practice's 2-year intervention period, the practice will initiate prenatal care for \~750-1,500 patients (up to 60,000 patients total), whose outcomes the investigators will follow and compare between arms until all these patients have reached 1-year post-delivery.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Have at least 180 Black patient deliver over 2 years
Be willing to be randomized
Be willing to adhere to the study protocol
Start prenatal care at one of the study clinics during study implementation
Disqualifiers
Already integrated with Community-Based Doulas
Already have an Early Warning System or Disparities Dashboard
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Data Accountability and Transparency
- Community-Based Doula (CBD) Support
Treatment groups
Sponsors and collaborators
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Lead sponsor
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
Collaborator
UNC Health Foundation
Collaborator
The Duke Endowment
Collaborator