Complicating Conditions of Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2008

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This Statistical Brief presents data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) on pregnancy and childbirth hospitalizations with complicating conditions in 2008. All data are reported from the maternal perspective (i.e., reflecting the experience of the mother, not the newborn). For the purpose of this Brief, “complicating conditions” include all ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes that are in the section entitled “Complications of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Puerperium.”