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Covid-19 Prevalence And Trends Among Pregnant And Postpartum Individuals In Maine By Rurality And Pregnancy Conditions, Charlie Grantham, Christina Ackerman-Banks, Heather Lipkind, Kristin Palmsten, Katherine Ahrens
Covid-19 Prevalence And Trends Among Pregnant And Postpartum Individuals In Maine By Rurality And Pregnancy Conditions, Charlie Grantham, Christina Ackerman-Banks, Heather Lipkind, Kristin Palmsten, Katherine Ahrens
Costas T. Lambrew Research Retreat 2023
Our study is the first to estimate prevalence of COVID-19 among pregnant and postpartum individuals for Maine, using data that captures both commercial and public insurance and examines differences by rurality, a known modifier of COVID-19 infections in the U.S. individuals.
Accuracy Of The Drug-Dependency Checkbox On The Maine Birth Certificate For Medicaid-Covered Births, 2016-2020, Julia Dudley Ba, Catherine Mcguire Bs, Apsara Kumarage Ba, Chinonye Anumaka Mph, Katherine Ahrens Phd
Accuracy Of The Drug-Dependency Checkbox On The Maine Birth Certificate For Medicaid-Covered Births, 2016-2020, Julia Dudley Ba, Catherine Mcguire Bs, Apsara Kumarage Ba, Chinonye Anumaka Mph, Katherine Ahrens Phd
Journal of Maine Medical Center
Introduction: The accuracy of the drug-dependency checkbox on Maine birth certificates is unknown. Our objective was to compare the drug-dependency checkbox with information on substance use disorders (SUDs) documented in Medicaid claims.
Methods: Using rule-based deterministic matching, we linked Medicaid enrollment information to Maine birth-record data between 2016 and 2020 (N = 58 584). Among the linked records (n = 27 448), we identified maternal SUD diagnoses during the 280 days before through 7 days after delivery using ICD-CM-9/10 diagnosis codes. We used the following hierarchy to create mutually exclusive SUD categories: opioid use disorder (OUD), cannabis use disorder without …