Postpartum Health Care Among Women With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Postpartum health care among women with intellectual and developmental disabilities has not been well studied. This study uses administrative claims to compare postpartum outpatient visits among women with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Methods

Massachusetts All Payers Claims Database 2012-2015 was used to identify women with intellectual and developmental disabilities and a live birth during 2012-2014, matched by infant birth year to 3 women without intellectual and developmental disabilities. Women were followed up for 1 year after delivery. Analyses were conducted in 2019. Poisson regression compared guideline-concordant postpartum and other outpatient visits during the early (21-56 days after delivery) and late (57-365 days after de

SUBMITTER: Clements KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8204383 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature