Development and Validation of an Obstetric Comorbidity Risk Score for Clinical Use.

ABSTRACT: Background: A comorbidity summary score may support early and systematic identification of women at high risk for adverse obstetric outcomes. The objective of this study was to conduct the initial development and validation of an obstetrics comorbidity risk score for automated implementation in the electronic health record (EHR) for clinical use. Methods: The score was developed and validated using EHR data for a retrospective cohort of pregnancies with delivery between 2010 and 2018 at Kaiser Permanente Northern California, an integrated health care system. The outcome used for model development consisted of adverse obstetric events from delivery hospitalization (e.g., eclampsia, hemorrhage, death). Candidate predictors included maternal age, parity, mul

SUBMITTER: Ruppel H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8617587 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature