MSP is a Premium Registry Service designed for professional midwives and organizations who want additional features and support.
For an annual membership fee, Premium Registry members receive:
- Enhanced support services tailored to professional users.
- Advanced tools for consent management, statistics and records oversight.
- Unlimited form submissions and added flexibility for forms transfers.
- Priority access to new features and updates.
We continue to offer a Free Registry Service for all midwives. Free users can upgrade to Premium at any time, with no loss of data or disruption to records.
By participating in the Premium Registry, you are helping to ensure the sustainability of this service for the midwifery community, continued investment in professional tools, and stronger data standards for practice and research.
As a new contributor to the Project you are agreeing to the following: (1) You are an actively practicing midwife, (2) You are contributing data for use in your own practice for quality assurance and quality improvement and to provide information to current and potential clients, (3) You are contributing data for use of statistical reports.
Purpose. The MANA Statistics Project (MSP) collects data from actively practicing midwives to provide quality improvement statistics for contributors; provide information to current and potential clients on practice outcomes, and support birth and midwifery research and care policies.
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Activities. After enrolling, you will be prompted to confirm your email address. Once confirmed, MSP will review your account request and confirm your account. At that time, you will receive a confirmation email. After receiving confirmation, you can begin registering each client at the beginning of their care with you. Upon completion of their course of care, including a 6 week postpartum visit, you will complete their birth information and submit the form. All information will be de-identified by the system before it is entered into the database.
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Time. Your estimated time commitment to participate in the project is 25-35 minutes. This time commitment includes pre-registering or logging clients, and entering information on consented clients’ courses of care into the online system.
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Risks. The security and confidentiality of information collected from you online cannot be guaranteed. However, we can ensure that all data will be kept secure to the extent permitted by the technology being used. Information collected online can be intercepted, corrupted, lost, or destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. There is a chance that we could accidentally disclose information that identifies you; however, this chance is minimized by several security protocols MSP has put in place to protect midwives. These include maintaining unique IDs to protect your confidentiality, de-identifying all shared data, and storing account data separately.
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Benefits. All practicing midwives can use MSP at no cost. Currently, there is a limit on the number of birth forms you can register at no cost. Premium users pay an annual fee for additional service features and options. All users will directly benefit from your participation on MSP by using our tool to view statistics and generate reports about your practice. This information is valuable to quality assurance and quality improvement and can be provided to current and potential clients. An indirect but important benefit is the research conducted using the MSP database that can be used to guide midwifery policies that improve maternal and infant health care outcomes.
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Alternatives. Although some states and professional organizations require participation on MSP or a data registry like MSP, according to federal law, research participation must be voluntary. If you choose to participate as a research contributor, you are agreeing for your data to be used in research. Premium registry users may opt out of use of data for research. All data entered into MSP, that is used for research, will be de-identified with no connection to you or to your clients and reported as aggregate data. For example: “a 2% transport rate for all births in the database” or “87% of the births in the database were attended by CPMs”. In reporting subgroup information, MSP will avoid identifying small or unique populations (n < 10) in a way that may infer the identity of mothers or contributors.
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Confidentiality. The confidentiality of your professional information and your clients’ health-related information will be carefully protected. To protect your identity, the system will generate a unique code for you as a midwife contributor rather than using your name. You will sign into the system using a password chosen by you. Data on your clients will likewise be listed using client codes that you assign, rather than name.
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Contact Information: For more information about MSP, please contact:
[email protected]
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Voluntariness: Participation on MSP is voluntary. You will not lose any benefits or rights you would normally have if you choose not to participate. You can stop at any time and still keep the benefits and rights you had before volunteering. You may choose to stop participation as a contributor midwife at any time. All data submitted by you, on behalf of consenting clients, prior to withdrawal from the project will remain in the system.
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Funding: MSP is a product offered by ARETGroup LLC. The project has previously received support from federal agencies, private companies and nonprofit foundations.
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Conflict of Interest. Researchers accessing the data may also be midwives themselves or otherwise involved as midwifery or birth professionals.
You are encouraged to ask any questions you may have about this project before deciding to participate. You may contact
[email protected]
for more information. To enroll as a contributor in MSP, complete and submit the enrollment form and agree to the terms and conditions.
