Maternal hospitalizations and sepsis
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- PHC4 Research briefs
- Contributor(s):
- Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council, issuing body.
- Publication:
- [Harrisburg, PA] : Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council, May 2021
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Hospitalization -- statistics & numerical data Pregnancy Complications Sepsis -- epidemiology Pennsylvania United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- This research brief focuses on patients hospitalized for a delivery or other pregnancy related condition who also had a diagnosis of sepsis. Sepsis is a life-threatening condition characterized by a system-wide inflammatory response to infection that can worsen to acute organ dysfunction. Included are Pennsylvania female residents and non-residents ages 12-55 who were hospitalized for a maternal stay and discharged from a Pennsylvania acute care hospital from October 2015 through September 2020. For the maternal stays with a diagnosis of sepsis, the sepsis could have developed prior to the hospitalization or during the hospital stay. The results in this report were not adjusted for age or other patient characteristics to avoid masking important sociodemographic differences.
- Copyright:
- The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (3 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918402086606676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918402086606676