Mental Health Disorders Among Delivery Inpatient Stays by Patient Race and Ethnicity, 2020

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This Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Statistical Brief presents statistics on mental health disorders during delivery inpatient stays by patient race and ethnicity using weighted estimates from the 2020 National Inpatient Sample (NIS). First, changes in the rate of delivery stays with any mental health disorder diagnosis are presented by patient race and ethnicity from 2017 to 2020. Second, the distribution of delivery stays with and without a mental health disorder diagnosis is presented by patient race and ethnicity. Third, the rate of delivery stays with any mental health disorder diagnosis is presented by patient race and ethnicity for select patient and hospital characteristics and for specific and prevalent mental health disorders. Finally, the rate is provided by patient race and ethnicity for delivery stays involving common obstetric risk factors and either a concurrent mental health disorder diagnosis or no concurrent mental health disorder diagnosis. Because of the large sample size of the NIS data, small differences can be statistically significant but not clinically important. Thus, only differences greater than or equal to 10 percent are discussed in the text.