Patterns of obstetric infection rates in a large sample of US hospitals

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• 作者：Sarah L. Goff ; MD^a ; ^b ; ^d ; ^{Sarah.Goffmd@baystatehealth.org} ; Penelope S. Pekow ; PhD^b ; Jill Avrunin ; MS^b ; Tara Lagu ; MD ; MPH^a ; ^b ; Glenn Markenson ; MD^c ; Peter K. Lindenauer ; MD ; MSc^a ; ^b ; ^d
• 关键词：hospital characteristics ; maternal infection rates ; variation
• 刊名：American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：June, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：208
• 期：6
• 页码：456.e1-456.e13
• 全文大小：531 K

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Objective

Maternal infection is a common complication of childbirth, yet little is known about the extent to which infection rates vary among hospitals. We estimated hospital-level risk-adjusted maternal infection rates (RAIR) in a large sample of US hospitals and explored associations between RAIR and select hospital features.

Study Design

This retrospective cohort study included hospitals in the Perspective database with >100 deliveries over 2 years. Using a composite measure of infection, we estimated and compared RAIR across hospitals using hierarchical generalized linear models. We then estimated the amount of variation in RAIR attributable to hospital features.

Results

Of the 1,001,189 deliveries at 355 hospitals, 4.1 % were complicated by infection. Patients aged 15-19 years were 50 % more likely to experience infection than those aged 25-29 years. Rupture of membranes >24 hours (odds ratio [OR], 3.0; 95 % confidence interval [CI], 3.24?3.5), unengaged fetal head (OR, 3.11; 95 % CI, 2.97?3.27), and blood loss anemia (OR, 2.42; 95 % CI, 2.34?2.49) had the highest OR among comorbidities commonly found in patients with infection. RAIR ranged from 1.0?14.4 % (median, 4.0 % ; interquartile range, 2.8?5.7 % ). Hospital features such as geographic region, teaching status, urban setting, and higher number of obstetric beds were associated with higher infection rates, accounting for 14.8 % of the variation observed.

Conclusion

Obstetric RAIR vary among hospitals, suggesting an opportunity to improve obstetric quality of care. Hospital features such as region, number of obstetric beds, and teaching status account for only a small portion of the observed variation in infection rates.