Postpartum care visits among commercially insured women in the United States

ABSTRACT:

BACKGROUND

To reduce postpartum morbidity and mortality, optimizing routine outpatient postpartum care has become a focus of national attention and a healthcare priority.

OBJECTIVE

This study aimed to examine the timing, content, and predictors of routine outpatient postpartum visit attendance within a large, commercially insured patient population.

STUDY DESIGN

We performed a retrospective cohort study using a national US database of commercial insurance beneficiaries with a delivery hospitalization between 2011 and 2015. We calculated the proportion of patients who had an outpatient postpartum visit within 8 weeks of hospital discharge. Using a multivariable logistic regression model, we identified independent predictors of an outpatient postpartum visit. To ga

SUBMITTER: Butwick A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9563203 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature