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AHRQ’s Health Care Innovations Exchange Offers Innovative Solutions to Caring for Women with Gestational Diabetes



Approximately 7 percent of pregnancies in the United States are complicated by gestational diabetes, which is a risk factor for developing Type 2 diabetes. AHRQ’s Health Care Innovations Exchange offers health care professionals practical tools to educate themselves and pregnant women about gestational diabetes, and for caring for women with gestational diabetes during and after pregnancy. The Innovations Exchange also offers innovative approaches to addressing high-risk pregnancies that can lead to premature babies and other complications.



* The Partners in Pregnancy program provides telephone case management and periodic home visits from registered nurses to pregnant women with Type 2 diabetes or other risk factors receiving Medicaid benefits. [AHRQ Innovations Exchange | Telephone-Based Case Management and Periodic Home Visits Reduce Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Utilization and Overall Costs for High-Risk Pregnant Women and Their Babies]

* A Medicaid managed care plan uses cell phone text messaging to send members with Type 2 diabetes monthly educational messages and appointment reminders for glucose testing. This program has been expanded to pregnant women to educate and remind them about pre-and post-natal care. [AHRQ Innovations Exchange | Monthly Text Messages Increase Compliance With Recommended Blood Glucose Testing in Medicaid Managed Care Enrollees With Diabetes]

Additional innovations related to Type 2 diabetes and pregnancy are available on the Innovations Exchange Web site, a searchable database of more than 500 innovations and 1550 QualityTools [AHRQ Innovations Exchange | Search Results].

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