Severe maternal morbidity in Pennsylvania
- 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, August 2023
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Morbidity -- trends Pregnancy Complications -- epidemiology Age Factors Pregnancy Complications -- ethnology Socioeconomic Factors Pennsylvania
- Genre(s):
- Statistics Technical Report
- Abstract:
- This research brief examines severe maternal morbidity (SMM) among patients hospitalized in Pennsylvania for a delivery. Severe maternal morbidity includes unexpected outcomes of labor and delivery that result in significant short- or long-term consequences to a woman’s health. Included are Pennsylvania female residents and non-residents ages 12-55 years who were admitted for a delivery stay to a Pennsylvania acute care hospital in calendar years 2016 through 2022, with an emphasis on data from the two-year period 2021-2022. For this research brief, SMM was defined using the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health’s definitions of delivery hospitalizations and severe maternal morbidity. 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 (5 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918715987406676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918715987406676