Person-centered hospital discharge data: Essential existing infrastructure to enhance public health surveillance of maternal substance use disorders in the midst of a national maternal overdose crisis

CONCLUSION: By spanning the full 21 months of pregnancy/postpartum, person-centered HDD reveal than the maternal SUD crisis is far greater than encounter-based delivery estimates had revealed. Generating person-centered HDD will improve efforts to tailor interventions to help people who use drugs survive while pregnant and postpartum, and eliminate inequities.PMID:38677568 | DOI:10.1016/j.annepidem.2024.04.007

Source: Annals of Epidemiology - April 27, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Rohan R D'Souza Hannah Lf Cooper Howard H Chang Erin Rogers Simone Wien Sarah C Blake Michael R Kramer Source Type: research