Severe Maternal Morbidity Among Stillbirth and Live Birth Deliveries in California.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the prevalence and risk of severe maternal morbidity among delivery hospitalization for stillbirth compared with live birth deliveries.

Methods

Using data from the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development in California, we performed a population-based cross-sectional study of 6,459,842 deliveries between 1999 and 2011. We identified severe maternal morbidity using an algorithm comprising diagnoses and procedures developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and used log-binomial regression models to examine the relative risk (RR) of severe maternal morbidity for stillbirth compared with live birth deliveries, adjusting for maternal demographic, medical, and obstetric characteristics. We also examined severe maternal morbidity prev

SUBMITTER: Wall-Wieler E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6921936 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature