title: Implementation science and the pregnancy risk assessment monitoring system.
abstract: This paper describes the restructuring of the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), a surveillance system of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)'s Division of Reproductive Health conducted for 25 years in collaboration with state and city health departments. With the ultimate goal to better inform health care providers, public health programs, and policy, changes were made to various aspects of PRAMS to enhance its capacity on assessing and monitoring public health interventions and clinical practices in addition to risk behaviors, disease prevalence, comorbidities, and service utilization. Specifically, the three key PRAMS changes identified as necessary and described in this paper are questionnaire revision, launching the web-based centralized PRAMS Integrated Data Collection System, and enhancing the access to PRAMS data through the web query system known as Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's PRAMS Online Data for Epidemiologic Research/PRAMStat. The seven action steps of Knowledge To Action cycle, an illustration of the implementation science process, that reflect the milestones necessary in bridging the knowledge-to-action gap were used as framework for each of these key changes.
authors.affiliation: Applied Sciences Branch, Division of Reproductive Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia .
authors.forename: Violanda I
authors.initials: VI
authors.lastname: Grigorescu
authors.forename: Denise V
authors.initials: DV
authors.lastname: D'Angelo
authors.forename: Leslie L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Harrison
authors.forename: Aspy J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Taraporewalla
authors.forename: Holly
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shulman
authors.forename: Ruben A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006282:Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D008425:Maternal Behavior; D018743:Perinatal Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011159:Population Surveillance; D011181:Postnatal Care / Q000379:methods*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D011295:Prenatal Care / Q000379:methods*; D018570:Risk Assessment; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States