Area Poverty and Adverse Birth Outcomes: An Opportunity for Quality Improvement.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the association between area poverty and adverse birth outcomes in the diverse birthing population of a large health system.

Methods

This was a retrospective cohort study using electronic health record and hospital administrative data for pregnant people at nine hospitals within a large health system in the Chicago metropolitan area from 2018 to 2023. Patient addresses were geocoded and categorized by Census tract area percent poor households. Unadjusted and adjusted Poisson regression models, controlling for individual-level risk factors, evaluated the independent association between area poverty and birth outcomes to determine the degree to which this association is attenuated by the inclusion of individual-level factors in the model.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Madden N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11747778 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature