Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome and Maternal Opioid-Related Diagnoses in the US, 2010-2017.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Substantial increases in both neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) and maternal opioid use disorder have been observed through 2014.

Objective

To examine national and state variation in NAS and maternal opioid-related diagnoses (MOD) rates in 2017 and to describe national and state changes since 2010 in the US, which included expanded MOD codes (opioid use disorder plus long-term and unspecified use) implemented in International Classification of Disease, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification.

Design, setting, and participants

Repeated cross-sectional analysis of the 2010 to 2017 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project's National Inpatient Sample and State Inpatient Databases, an all-payer compendium of hospital discharge records from community nonrehabilitati

SUBMITTER: Hirai AH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7804920 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature