Associations between ethnicity and admission to intensive care among women giving birth: a cohort study

CONCLUSIONS: Black women have an increased risk of intensive care admission that cannot be explained by demographic, health, lifestyle, pregnancy and birth factors. Clinical and policy intervention should focus on the early identification and management of severe illness, particularly obstetric haemorrhage, in Black women, in order to reduce inequalities in intensive care admission.TWEETABLE ABSTRACT: Black women are almost twice as likely as White women to be admitted to intensive care during pregnancy and the postpartum period; this risk remains after accounting for demographic, health, lifestyle, pregnancy and birth factors.PMID:34545995 | DOI:10.1111/1471-0528.16891

Source: BJOG : An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology - September 21, 2021 Category: OBGYN Authors: J Jardine I Gurol-Urganci T Harris J Hawdon D Pasupathy J van der Meulen K Walker NMPA project team Source Type: research