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SUBMITTER: Leung J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3582420 | biostudies-other | 2012 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Leung Jessica J Cannon Michael J MJ Grosse Scott D SD Bialek Stephanie R SR
BMC infectious diseases 20121203
<h4>Background</h4>Routine cytomegalovirus (CMV) screening during pregnancy is not recommended in the United States and the extent to which it is performed is unknown. Using a medical claims database, we computed rates of CMV-specific testing among pregnant women.<h4>Methods</h4>We used medical claims from the 2009 Truven Health MarketScan® Commercial databases. We computed CMV-specific testing rates using CPT codes.<h4>Results</h4>We identified 77,773 pregnant women, of whom 1,668 (2%) had a cl ...[more]