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Williams Obstetrics, 23e
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Chapter 41. General Considerations and Maternal Evaluation
Sections: General Considerations and Maternal Evaluation: Introduction, Maternal Physiology and Alterations in Laboratory Values, Medications during Pregnancy, Surgery during Pregnancy, Imaging Techniques, Sonography, Magnetic Resonance (MR) Imaging, Guidelines for Diagnostic Imaging during Pregnancy, References.
Excerpt:"It is difficult to accurately quantify the incidence and types of medical and surgical illnesses that complicate pregnancy. Estimates have been derived from other indices of hospitalization as well as birth certificate data (Lydon-Rochelle and associates, 2005). For example, Gazmararian and colleagues (2002) reported an overall antenatal hospitalization rate of 10.1 per 100 deliveries in their managed-care population of more than 46,000 pregnant women. About a third of these were for nonobstetrical conditions such as renal, gastrointestinal, pulmonary, and infectious diseases. In a study from the 2002 Nationwide Inpatient Sample of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, Kuo and associates (2007) used the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) injury and concurrent pregnancy diagnosis codes. From these, they found the injury hospitalization rate to be 4.1 women per 1000 deliveries...."
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