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Table 1 Abbreviated open-ended prompts from Delphi survey 1

From: Implementation research priorities for addressing the maternal health crisis in the USA: results from a modified Delphi study among researchers

Research area

Abbreviated prompt(s)

1. Evidence-based interventions for broader implementation

• Provide up to three evidence-based practices that you believe should be prioritized for implementation in maternity care in the USA; select interventions that you believe have the greatest potential to improve maternal health outcomes if they were implemented more broadly.

2. Overused interventions for de-implementation

• Provide up to three clinical practices that you believe should be targeted for de-implementation; select interventions that you believe are not supported by current evidence and whose overuse is contributing to worse maternal health outcomes.

3. Determinants of implementation

• Provide up to two research questions related to contextual factors that you believe are the most important to study for improving implementation in maternity care

4. Implementation strategies

• Provide up to two research questions related to implementation strategies that you think are the most important to study in maternity care

5. Implementation research methods

• Provide up to two research questions related to the development or adaptation of implementation science methods that you believe are the most important to study for advancing implementation research in maternity care