Maternal Health after Stillbirth: Postpartum Hospital Readmission in California.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The aim of this study is to assess whether the risk of postpartum readmission within 6 weeks of giving birth differs for women who had stillbirths compared with live births.

Study design

Using data from the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development in California, we performed a population-based cohort study of 7,398,640 births between 1999 and 2011. We identified diagnoses and procedures associated with the first postpartum hospital readmission that occurred within 6 weeks after giving birth. We used log-binomial models to estimate relative risk (RR) of postpartum readmission for women who had stillbirth compared with live birth deliveries, adjusting for maternal demographic, prepregnancy, pregnancy, and delivery characteristics.

Results

The rate o

SUBMITTER: Wall-Wieler E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7609589 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature