Boghossian Lab

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NIH R01 · 2024

Hospital quality, Medicaid expansion, and racial/ethnic disparitiesin maternal mortality and morbidity

Abstract: Racial and ethnic disparities in maternal adverse outcomes remain a significant public health problem. Studies conducted in New York City (NYC) hospitals have shown that minority women are more likely to deliver in low-quality hospitals and that they are also at a higher within-hospital risk of severe maternal morbidity (SMM) than white women, even after accounting for type of insurance. Although these studies represent important pointers in our understanding of SMM disparities, there are still many open questions about how quality of delivery hospitals drives the higher rates in adverse outcomes observed for minority women. First, it is unknown whether racial/ethnic differences…

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