Spatial Patterns of Delivery Hospitalizations with Opioid Use Disorder in Pennsylvania.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Opioid use disorder (OUD) in pregnancy has substantially increased throughout the drug overdose crisis, but little is known about how local community environments are associated with OUD in pregnancy. This study investigates spatial patterns and residential ZIP code-level factors associated with delivery hospitalizations with OUD in Pennsylvania and compares these patterns to those for all delivery hospitalizations and all OUD-related hospitalizations.

Methods

ZIP code-level inpatient hospitalizations based on patients' residential ZIP codes in Pennsylvania were examined from 2016 to 2019. Using Bayesian hierarchical space-time conditional autoregressive models, we assessed the contributions of residential ZIP code-level factors to OUD delivery hospitalizations an

SUBMITTER: Frankeberger J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11999768 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature