Evaluating risk-adjusted cesarean delivery rate as a measure of obstetric quality.
Evaluating risk-adjusted cesarean delivery rate as a measure of obstetric quality.
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DOI:
10.1097/aog.0b013e3181d9f4b6
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发表时间:
2010-05
影响因子:
7.2
通讯作者:
Lorch SA
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作者:
Srinivas SK;Fager C;Lorch SA
To validate the risk- adjusted cesarean delivery rate as a measure of obstetric quality through its association with maternal and neonatal outcomes for all pregnancies (model 1) and in singleton primiparous patients (model 2). We constructed a population-based cohort of 845,651 patients from 401 hospitals representing all deliveries in California and Pennsylvania between 2004 and 2005. We used linked birth certificate and hospital admission records for mother and infant to estimate the correlation between risk-adjusted cesarean delivery and a composite of adverse maternal outcomes, adverse neonatal outcome, and four obstetric patient safety indicators from The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). In both models, risk-adjusted cesarean delivery rates were negatively correlated with both the maternal and neonatal composite outcomes and the AHRQ patient safety indicators for birth trauma, injury with instrumented vaginal delivery and cesarean delivery. Approximately 60% of the 107 hospitals with lower-than-expected risk-adjusted cesarean delivery rates had a higher-than-expected rate of at least one of the six adverse outcomes, compared to 19.6% of the hospitals with a higher-than-expected, risk-adjusted cesarean delivery rate and 36.1% of the hospitals with expected rates (p<0.001). Lower-than-expected, risk-adjusted cesarean delivery rates in all patients or when restricted to a more homogeneous group of term singleton primiparous patients are associated with higher-than-expected adverse maternal or neonatal outcomes. Higher-than-expected risk-adjusted cesarean delivery rates do not result in improved outcomes.