A Modernized Approach to Prenatal Care in Low Risk Women

February 3, 2017 updated by: Allan Nadel, Massachusetts General Hospital
The investigators plan to identify 80 pregnant women at low risk for obstetrical complications and replace 4-5 routine third trimester visits with a structured program of home weight, blood pressure and urine protein monitoring along with regular structured phone interviews and a 28 week ultrasound. The investigators hypothesis is that this protocol is both safe and acceptable.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

4

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United States
    • Massachusetts
      • Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115
        • Massachusetts General Hospital

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

No older than 35 years (Child, Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Genders Eligible for Study

Female

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Age < 35
  • Doesn't live alone
  • Current phone number
  • Previous pregnancy
  • No prior second trimester miscarriage/fetal loss after 13 weeks
  • Previous delivery
  • If yes, all had uncomplicated antepartum course
  • All Deliveries > 37 weeks
  • All birth weight > 2700 grams
  • Maternal BMI between 18.5 and 30
  • No chronic medical problems
  • No current substance abuse
  • Spontaneous conception
  • No family history of pre-eclampsia
  • Agrees to first trimester aneuploidy screening

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Clinically significant abnormalities on routine physical exam or routine laboratory results
  • Multiple pregnancy
  • Fetal abnormalities detected on either the 11-14 week or the 18 week ultrasound including a nuchal translucency > 3 mm but not including second trimester markers for aneuploidy or a low lying placenta
  • A risk of fetal aneuploidy on first trimester screening > 1:300 PAPP-A < 5 %ile or HCG < 1 %ile (abnormalities of these serum analytes routinely obtained as part of aneuploidy screening are associated with an increased risk of adverse outcome)
  • Elevated blood pressure (> 140/90),
  • Cervical length < 3 cm at the 18 week ultrasound (which is associated with an increased risk for preterm delivery).

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Diagnostic
  • Allocation: N/A
  • Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Low risk patients
Patients who agreed to 4 telemedicine obstetrical visits
Other: Modernized prenatal care
Home monitoring/phone surveillance/28 week ultrasound in place of 4-5 routine prenatal visits between 18 and 36 weeks

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Unanticipated pregnancy complications
Time Frame: Gestational age 18-36 weeks
Any maternal and/or fetal adverse outcome that was not detected, but could have been detected by routine antepartum visits between 18 and 36 weeks
Gestational age 18-36 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Massachusetts General Hospital

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Allan S Nadel, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start

July 1, 2012

Primary Completion (Actual)

April 1, 2014

Study Completion (Actual)

April 1, 2014

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

May 24, 2012

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

May 25, 2012

First Posted (Estimate)

May 28, 2012

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimate)

February 6, 2017

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

February 3, 2017

Last Verified

February 1, 2017

More Information

Terms related to this study

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • PNC2.0

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

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