Maternal comorbidity index and severe maternal morbidity among medicaid covered pregnant women in a US Southern rural state.
Ruofei DuMir M AliYi-Shan SungAmbrish A PanditNalin PayakachatSongthip T OunpraseuthEverett F MagannHari EswaranPublished in: The journal of maternal-fetal & neonatal medicine : the official journal of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine, the Federation of Asia and Oceania Perinatal Societies, the International Society of Perinatal Obstetricians (2023)
The comorbidity index can be used in quantifying the risk of SMM and can help cluster the study population into risk tiers of SMM, especially in rural states where there are disproportionately higher rates of SMM; however, the predictive value of the comorbidity index for SMM is inappreciable.