TY - JOUR
T1 - Postpartum Hospital Readmissions With and Without Severe Maternal Morbidity Within 1 Year of Birth, Oregon, 2012–2017
AU - Kaufman, Menolly
AU - McConnell, K. John
AU - Carmichael, Suzan L.
AU - Rodriguez, Maria I.
AU - Richardson, Dawn
AU - Snowden, Jonathan M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
American Journal of Epidemiology © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. All rights reserved.
PY - 2023/2/1
Y1 - 2023/2/1
N2 - Postpartum readmissions (PPRs) represent a critical marker of maternal morbidity after hospital childbirth. Most severe maternal morbidity (SMM) events result in a hospital admission, but most PPRs do not have evidence of SMM. Little is known about PPR and SMM beyond the first 6 weeks postpartum. We examined the associations of maternal demographic and clinical factors with PPR within 12 months postpartum. We categorized PPR as being with or without evidence of SMM to assess whether risk factors and timing differed. Using the Oregon All Payer All Claims database, we analyzed hospital births from 2012–2017. We used log-binomial regression to estimate associations between maternal factors and PPR. Our final analytical sample included 158,653 births. Overall, 2.6% (n = 4,141) of births involved at least 1 readmission within 12 months postpartum (808 (19.5% of PPRs) with SMM). SMM at delivery was the strongest risk factor for PPR with SMM (risk ratio (RR) = 5.55, 95% confidence interval (CI): 4.14, 7.44). PPR without SMM had numerous risk factors, including any mental health diagnosis (RR = 2.10, 95% CI: 1.91, 2.30), chronic hypertension (RR = 2.17, 95% CI: 1.85, 2.55), and prepregnancy diabetes (RR = 2.85, 95% CI: 2.47, 3.30), all which were on par with SMM at delivery (RR = 1.89, 95% CI: 1.49, 2.40).
AB - Postpartum readmissions (PPRs) represent a critical marker of maternal morbidity after hospital childbirth. Most severe maternal morbidity (SMM) events result in a hospital admission, but most PPRs do not have evidence of SMM. Little is known about PPR and SMM beyond the first 6 weeks postpartum. We examined the associations of maternal demographic and clinical factors with PPR within 12 months postpartum. We categorized PPR as being with or without evidence of SMM to assess whether risk factors and timing differed. Using the Oregon All Payer All Claims database, we analyzed hospital births from 2012–2017. We used log-binomial regression to estimate associations between maternal factors and PPR. Our final analytical sample included 158,653 births. Overall, 2.6% (n = 4,141) of births involved at least 1 readmission within 12 months postpartum (808 (19.5% of PPRs) with SMM). SMM at delivery was the strongest risk factor for PPR with SMM (risk ratio (RR) = 5.55, 95% confidence interval (CI): 4.14, 7.44). PPR without SMM had numerous risk factors, including any mental health diagnosis (RR = 2.10, 95% CI: 1.91, 2.30), chronic hypertension (RR = 2.17, 95% CI: 1.85, 2.55), and prepregnancy diabetes (RR = 2.85, 95% CI: 2.47, 3.30), all which were on par with SMM at delivery (RR = 1.89, 95% CI: 1.49, 2.40).
KW - maternal morbidity
KW - postpartum readmissions
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U2 - 10.1093/aje/kwac183
DO - 10.1093/aje/kwac183
M3 - Article
C2 - 36269008
AN - SCOPUS:85147389830
SN - 0002-9262
VL - 192
SP - 158
EP - 170
JO - American journal of epidemiology
JF - American journal of epidemiology
IS - 2
ER -