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Article History

Received: 13 February 2020

Accepted: 1 July 2020

First Online: 15 July 2020

Compliance with ethical standards

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: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest to declare.

: The Institutional Review Board (IRB) of the University of Mississippi Medical Center requires that a Self-Certification Form for Determining Whether a Proposed Activity is Research Involving Human Subjects be completed on all potential research activities. This project was exempt from IRB review by determination as QI methodology. Therefore, the self-certification form was completed by investigators prior to implementation of the QI initiative and retained in the project records.

: Consent was not necessary as this article reports on findings of a quality improvement (QI) initiative. Pre-implementation, baseline data was obtained through a retrospective review of already available records. Post-implementation data was obtained prospectively as patients underwent the standard of care that was initiated by a process change related to this QI initiative. All postpartum WLWH were provided the same standard of care.