Maternal and infant characteristics associated with maternal opioid overdose in the year following delivery.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Opioid-related overdose is increasingly linked to pregnancy-associated deaths, but factors associated with postpartum overdose are unknown. We aimed to estimate the strength of the association between maternal and infant characteristics and postpartum opioid-related overdose.

Design

Retrospective cohort study using a linked, population-level data set.

Setting

Massachusetts, United States.

Conclusion

Among women who delivered live infants in Massachusetts, USA between 2012 and 2014, maternal diagnosis of OUD, prior non-fatal overdose, infant diagnosis of NAS and high unscheduled health-care utilization appeared to be positively associated with postpartum opioid overdose. However, more than half of postpartum overdoses in that period were to w

SUBMITTER: Nielsen T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7066531 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature