Hospital Readmission Following Delivery With and Without Severe Maternal Morbidity.

ABSTRACT: Background: The relationship between severe maternal morbidity (SMM) events during inpatient delivery and subsequent hospital readmission is not well understood. Materials and Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study of women with a live inpatient delivery during 2016 recorded in MarketScan^® databases for commercially insured and Medicaid populations. Live inpatient births were identified by the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision diagnostic and procedural codes, Current Procedural Terminology, and Diagnosis-Related Group codes. The incidence of hospital readmission within 30 days following a delivery discharge, and primary discharge diagnoses, were determined by SMM status. The association with hospital readmission of SMM st

SUBMITTER: Black CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11896017 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature