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Maternal care during pregnancy can yield limited improvement of outcomes that may be more influenced by women's health status at or before the beginning of pregnancy. Attention has therefore turned to improving preconception and interconception health as a means to drive better birth (and, ultimately, population) outcomes; however, lack of consensus about quality of preconception healthcare has challenged progress. Now, a public–private partnership assembled by the CDC has issued a set of nine agreed-upon process and outcome measures of preconception wellness.
Inclusion criteria included evidence to support the association between the metric and maternal and child outcomes, its consideration as a quality metric by major organizations, and it…