Kristin N. Ray

Oct 18, 2024 | rand.org | Floyd James |Kristin N. Ray |Jill R. Demirci |Ateev Mehrotra

Topics Publisher: American Journal of Obstetrics & GynecologyAvailability: Non-RAND Year: 2024 Pages: 5 Document Number: EP-70684 This publication is part of the RAND external publication series. Many RAND studies are published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals, as chapters in commercial books, or as documents published by other organizations. RAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis.

Jun 14, 2024 | rand.org | Ateev Mehrotra |Jill R. Demirci |Kristin N. Ray |Lori Uscher-Pines

BackgroundWe conducted a national, cross-sectional survey among new parents to explore use and acceptability of telelactation. MethodsRecruitment occurred between October 2021 and January 2022 on Ovia's parenting mobile phone application. Poststratification survey weights were used, and logistic and linear regression models estimated associations between demographics and telelactation use. Results: Among 1,617 respondents, 33.8% had at least one telelactation visit.

May 28, 2024 | jamanetwork.com | Kristin N. Ray |Samuel R. Wittman |Ateev Mehrotra

Moving eConsults Into Mainstream Pediatric Care In January 2023, for the first time, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) formally allowed Medicaid plans to make fee-for-service payments for electronic consultations (eConsults).1 eConsults are an asynchronous (or store-and-forward) clinician-to-clinician model of telehealth in which a requesting physician sends patient-specific text, photos, and/or audio files to a consulting physician, who then provides recommendations back...

Jan 5, 2024 | rand.org | Jill R. Demirci |Kristin N. Ray |Khadesia Howell |Gabriela Alvarado

BackgroundWhile breastfeeding rates have increased in the United States in recent years, racial and ethnic disparities persist. Telelactation may help reduce disparities by increasing access to lactation consultants, but there is limited research on acceptability among minoritized individuals. ObjectiveWe aimed to explore experiences with telelactation among Black parents and identify strategies to make services more culturally appropriate.