Medical Xpress January 8, 2025
The rate of opioid use disorder (OUD) is high in Medicaid-enrolled pregnant women, and they have a high rate of severe maternal morbidity (SMM), according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.
Samantha G. Auty, Ph.D., from the Boston University School of Public Health, and colleagues identified 96,309 pregnant women with OUD enrolled in Medicaid in 47 states with 108,975 deliveries in a cross-sectional study to estimate the rates of SMM.
The researchers found that across states, the mean rate of OUD among pregnant women enrolled in Medicaid was 324.8 per 10,000 live births. In this group, the mean unadjusted rate of SMM, excluding blood transfusions, among those...
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