Postpartum Readmissions Among Women With Diabetes.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To estimate whether women with diabetes are at risk for 60-day postpartum readmissions and associated complications.

Methods

The Nationwide Readmissions Database from 2010 to 2014 was analyzed to determine risk for 60-day postpartum readmissions among women with type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM), type 2 DM, gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), and unspecified DM compared with women with no diabetes. Secondary outcomes included evaluating risk for overall severe maternal morbidity during readmissions, as well as wound complications, acute diabetic complications such as diabetic ketoacidosis, venous thromboembolism, and hypertensive diseases of pregnancy. Billing data were used to ascertain both exposures and outcomes. Adjusted log-linear regression models including demo

SUBMITTER: Mourad M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6923572 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature