Jan 14, 2021
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) From 2010 to 2017, there were significant increases in the estimated rates of neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) and maternal opioid-related diagnoses (MOD), according to a study published in the Jan. 12 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Ashley H. Hirai, Ph.D., from the Department of Health and Human Services in Rockville, Maryland, and colleagues examined national and state variation in NAS and MOD rates in 2017 and described changes since 2010 using data from the 2010 to 2017 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project National Inpatient Sample and State Inpatient Databases.
In the national sample, there were 751,037 birth hospitalizations and 748,239 delivery hospitalizations in 2017. In the discharge record, 5,375 newborns had NAS and 6,065 women had MOD. The researchers found that the estimated NAS rate increased significantly, from 4.0 to 7.3 per 1,000 birth hospitalizations from 2010 to 2017. Th
1Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, Maryland
2Division of Reproductive Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, Georgia
3Commissioned Corps Public Health Service Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, Maryland
4Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, Maryland
5West Virginia University, School of Public Health, Morgantown
6formerly with the Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, Maryland at the time of analysis