Changes in rates of adverse pregnancy outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study in the United States, 2019–2020

OBJECTIVE: Our objective was to assess differences in pregnancy outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to the previous year. STUDY DESIGN: In a cross-sectional study of delivery hospitalizations in the Premier Healthcare Database Special COVID-19 Release, we assessed differences in selected...

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Autores principales: Simeone, Regina M., Downing, Karrie F., Wallace, Bailey, Galang, Romeo R., DeSisto, Carla L., Tong, Van T., Zapata, Lauren B., Ko, Jean Y., Ellington, Sascha R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group US 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8852860/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35169228
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41372-022-01327-3
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Sumario:OBJECTIVE: Our objective was to assess differences in pregnancy outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to the previous year. STUDY DESIGN: In a cross-sectional study of delivery hospitalizations in the Premier Healthcare Database Special COVID-19 Release, we assessed differences in selected maternal and pregnancy outcomes occurring April–December in 2019 and 2020 in the United States. RESULT: Among 663,620 deliveries occurring in 2019 and 614,093 deliveries occurring in 2020, we observed an increase in in-hospital maternal death from 2019 to 2020, which was no longer statistically significant after excluding deliveries with a COVID-19 diagnosis. Intensive care unit admission and preterm birth decreased from 2019 to 2020. There was no difference in the prevalence of most other outcomes examined. CONCLUSION: The full impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal and pregnancy outcomes remains to be understood. Most outcomes investigated experienced minimal change from 2019 to 2020.

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