Optimizing the control group for evaluating ART outcomes: can outpatient claims data yield a better control group?

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

We previously developed a subfertile comparison group with which to compare outcomes of assisted reproductive technology (ART) treatment. In this study, we evaluated whether insurance claims data in the Massachusetts All Payers Claims Database (APCD) defined a more appropriate comparison group.

Methods

We used Massachusetts vital records of women who delivered between 2013 and 2017 on whom APCD data were available. ART deliveries were those linked to a national ART database. Deliveries were subfertile if fertility treatment was marked on the birth certificate, had prior hospitalization with ICD code for infertility, or prior fertility treatment. An infertile group included women with an APCD outpatient or inpatient ICD 9/10 infertility code prior to delivery. Fertile

SUBMITTER: Stern JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8190220 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature