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New tool compares rates of severe pregnancy complications across US hospitals

from National Institutes of Health

New tool compares rates of severe pregnancy complications across US hospitals National Institutes of Health NIH-funded researchers have developed a new system for classifying severe maternal morbidity — life-threatening complications associated with childbirth — across U.S. hospitals. The system relies on patient discharge data to compare rates of severe maternal morbidity between different hospitals and different groups of patients. The study was led by Stephanie A. Leonard, Ph.D., of the Stanford University School of Medicine and appears in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology. Funding was provided in part by NIH’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and National Institute of Nursing Research. READ MORE

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