Leveraging a Longitudinally Linked Dataset to Assess Recurrence of Severe Maternal Morbidity.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Among those with a severe maternal morbidity (SMM) event and a subsequent birth, we examined how the risk of a second SMM event varied by patient characteristics and intrapartum hospital utilization.

Methods

We used a Massachusetts population-based dataset that longitudinally linked in-state births, hospital discharge records, prior and subsequent births, and non-birth-related hospital utilizations for birthing individuals and their children from January 1, 1999, to December 31, 2018, representing 1,460,514 births by 907,530 birthing people. We restricted our study sample to 2,814 people who had their first SMM event associated with a singleton birth and gave birth a second time within the study period. Our outcome measure was recurrence of SMM in the second birth

SUBMITTER: Diop H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11620169 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature