Racial and ethnic disparities in maternal morbidity and obstetric care.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate whether racial and ethnic disparities exist in obstetric care and adverse outcomes.

Methods

We analyzed data from a cohort of women who delivered at 25 hospitals across the United States over a 3-year period. Race and ethnicity was categorized as non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, Hispanic, or Asian. Associations between race and ethnicity and severe postpartum hemorrhage, peripartum infection, and severe perineal laceration at spontaneous vaginal delivery as well as between race and ethnicity and obstetric care (eg, episiotomy) relevant to the adverse outcomes were estimated by univariable analysis and multivariable logistic regression.

Results

Of 115,502 studied women, 95% were classified by one of the race and ethnicity categories. Non-Hi

SUBMITTER: Grobman WA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4443856 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature