Obstetric complications in women with diagnosed mental illness: the relative success of California's county mental health system.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine disparities in serious obstetric complications and quality of obstetric care during labor and delivery for women with and without mental illness.

Data source

Linked California hospital discharge (2000-2001), birth, fetal death, and county mental health system (CMHS) records.

Study design

This population-based, cross-sectional study of 915,568 deliveries in California, calculated adjusted odds ratios (AORs) for obstetric complication rates for women with a mental illness diagnosis (treated and not treated in the CMHS) compared with women with no mental illness diagnosis, controlling for sociodemographic, delivery hospital type, and clinical factors.

Results

Compared with deliveries in the general non-mentally ill population, deliveries to wo

SUBMITTER: Thornton D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2813447 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature