Socioeconomic disparities in ectopic pregnancy: predictors of adverse outcomes from Illinois hospital-based care, 2000-2006.

This study aimed to identify the incidence of adverse outcomes from ectopic pregnancy hospital care in Illinois (2000-2006), and assess patient, neighborhood, hospital and time factors associated with these outcomes. Discharge data from Illinois hospitals were retrospectively analyzed and ectopic pregnancies were identified using DRG and ICD-9 diagnosis codes. The primary outcome was any complication identified by ICD-9 procedure codes. Secondary outcomes were length of stay and discharge status. Residential zip codes were linked to 2000 U.S. Census data to identify patients' neighborhood demographics. Logistic regression was used to identify risk factors for adverse outcomes. Independent variables were insurance status, age, co-morbidities, neighborhood demographics, hospital type, hospital ectopic pregnancy service volume, and year of discharge. Of 13,007 ectopic pregnancy hospitalizations, 7.4% involved at least one complication identified by procedure codes. Hospitalizations covered by Medicare (for women with chronic disabilities) were more likely than those with other source or without insurance to result in surgical sterilization (OR 4.7, P = 0.012). Hospitalization longer than 2 days was more likely with Medicaid (OR 1.46, P < 0.0005) or no insurance (OR 1.35, P < 0.0005) versus other payers, and among church-operated versus secular hospitals (OR 1.21, P < 0.0005). Compared to public hospitals, private hospitals had lower rates of complications (OR 0.39, P < 0.0005) and of hospitalization longer than 2 days (OR 0.57, P < 0.0005). With time, hospitalizations became shorter (OR 0.53, P < 0.0005) and complication rates higher (OR 1.33, P = 0.024). Ectopic pregnancy patients with Medicaid, Medicare or no insurance, and those admitted to public or religious hospitals, were more likely to experience adverse outcomes.

An evaluation of the quality of obstetric morbidity coding using an objective assessment tool, the Performance Indicators For Coding Quality (PICQ).

The Performance Indicators for Coding Quality (PICQ) is a data quality assessment tool developed by Australia's National Centre for Classification in Health (NCCH). PICQ consists of a number of indicators covering all ICD-10-AM disease chapters, some procedure chapters from the Australian Classification of Health Intervention (ACHI) and some Australian Coding Standards (ACS). The indicators can be used to assess the coding quality of hospital morbidity data by monitoring compliance of coding conventions and ACS; this enables the identification of particular records that may be incorrectly coded, thus providing a measure of data quality. There are 31 obstetric indicators available for the ICD-10-AM Fourth Edition. Twenty of these 31 indicators were classified as Fatal, nine as Warning and two Relative. These indicators were used to examine coding quality of obstetric records in the 2004-2005 financial year Australian national hospital morbidity dataset. Records with obstetric disease or procedure codes listed anywhere in the code string were extracted and exported from the SPSS source file. Data were then imported into a Microsoft Access database table as per PICQ instructions, and run against all Fatal and Warning and Relative (N=31) obstetric PICQ 2006 Fourth Edition Indicators v.5 for the ICD-10- AM Fourth Edition. There were 689,905 gynaecological and obstetric records in the 2004-2005 financial year, of which 1.14% were found to have triggered Fatal degree errors, 3.78% Warning degree errors and 8.35% Relative degree errors. The types of errors include completeness, redundancy, specificity and sequencing problems. It was found that PICQ is a useful initial screening tool for the assessment of ICD-10-AM/ACHI coding quality. The overall quality of codes assigned to obstetric records in the 2004- 2005 Australian national morbidity dataset is of fair quality.

Eficacia de las técnica para la césarea, en el período de junio- diciembre del 2005, H. B. C. R / Effectiveness of the technique for the césarea, in the period of June - December of the 2005, H. B. C. R

Se realizó un estudio cuasiexperimental, en el Hospital Bertha Calderón Roque, durante el período de junio a diciembre del año 2005, a las pacientes que se les realizo cesárea, las que fueron estratificadas en tres grupos, según el tipo de técnica quirúrgica empleada (Técnica de Migasv Ladach, Suprapúbica Infraumbilical o la Técnica de Pfannenstiel). El universo de estudio lo conformaron 150 pacientes, 50 por tipo de técnica. El grupo etáreo de las pacientes se observó que la media fue de 23.9 + o - 6.8 años y una mediana de 22.5 años. Los grupos etáreos con mayore frecuencia que se les realizó cesárea fueron los de 16 a 20 años en un 38.0 por ciento (57). En la realización de la técnica Suprapúbica existio similitud y en la Misgav Ladach modificada para la cesárea en el grupo etáreo de 16 a 20 años con un 42.0 por ciento (21) y 44.0 por ciento (42) respectivamente; mientras que se observó mejo distribución entre los grupos etáreos que se les realizó la Técnica Pfannenstiel. Los diagnósticos por los que se les indicó ñla cesárea fueron muchos, siendo el más frecuente el Sufrimiento Fetal Agudo en un 16.0 por ciento (24) y Taquicardia Fetal en un 15.3 por ciento (23), seguidos de la DCP con 11.3 por ciento (17) y el NST no reactivo con un 9.3 por ciento (14). . La cesárea con Incisión tipo Pfannenstiel se realizó con mayor frecuencia en pacientes con diagnóstico de desproporción cefalopélvica en un 22.0 por ciento (11), mientras que la técnica con incisión suprapúbica infraumbilical y Misgav Ladach fueron indicadas por sufrimiento fetal agudo en un 28.0 por ciento (14) y 16-0 por ciento (8) respectivamente. La taquicardia fetal fue la segunda indicación tantoi para la Pfannenstiel como la suprapúbica infraumbilical con un 14.0 por ciento (7) y 20.0 por ciento (10) respectivamente; no así para la técnica de mMisgav Ladach modificada que fue el NST no reactivo con un 14.0 por ciento (7) y en tercer lugar la Taquicardia Fetal en un 12.0 por ciento (6).