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The association between living in an area in which the closest hospital is Catholic and the probability of postpartum contraception and subsequent deliveries is unknown.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"ab-ioi230107-5\"><jats:title>Objective<\/jats:title><jats:p>To assess whether living in an area in which the closest hospital was Catholic was associated with the probability of postpartum contraception and subsequent deliveries.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"ab-ioi230107-6\"><jats:title>Design, Setting, and Participants<\/jats:title><jats:p>This cohort study used data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project\u2019s State Inpatient Databases, State Emergency Department Databases, and State Ambulatory Surgery and Services Databases for 11 states (California, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, and Wisconsin). Female patients with a delivery from 2016 to 2019 who lived within 20 miles of a nonfederal acute care hospital were included, with patients followed up for 1 to 3 years. Coarsened exact matching was used to match patients based on the county-level percentage of the population affiliated with Catholic churches and urbanicity, and the zip code\u2013level number of hospitals within 5 and 20 miles, median household income, and percentage of the population by race and ethnicity. Data were analyzed from April 2022 to November 2023.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"ab-ioi230107-7\"><jats:title>Exposures<\/jats:title><jats:p>Residence in a zip code in which the closest hospital was Catholic.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"ab-ioi230107-8\"><jats:title>Main Outcomes and Measures<\/jats:title><jats:p>Probabilities of delivery at a Catholic hospital, surgical sterilization within 1 year of delivery, receipt of long-acting reversible contraception at delivery, and subsequent delivery within 3 years.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"ab-ioi230107-9\"><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>The sample consisted of 4\u202f101\u202f443 deliveries (1\u202f301\u202f792 after matching), with 14.5% of patients living in exposed zip codes (ie, where the closest hospital was Catholic). Living in exposed zip codes was associated with a 21.26\u2013percentage point (pp) increase in the probability of delivery at a Catholic hospital (95% CI, 19.50 to 23.02 pp; 237.3% relative to the mean in unexposed zip codes; <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009&amp;amp;lt;\u2009.001). Additionally, comparing exposed vs unexposed zip codes, the probability of surgical sterilization at delivery decreased by 0.95 pp (95% CI, \u22121.14 to \u22120.76 pp; <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009&amp;amp;lt;\u2009.001) and the probability of sterilization in the year after discharge further decreased by 0.21 pp (95% CI, \u22120.29 to \u22120.13; <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009&amp;amp;lt;\u2009.001). Subsequent deliveries within 3 years increased 0.47 pp (95% CI, \u22120.03 to 0.97 pp; 2.3% relative to the mean in unexposed zip codes; <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009.07).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"ab-ioi230107-10\"><jats:title>Conclusions and Relevance<\/jats:title><jats:p>This cohort study finds that living in a zip code in which the closest hospital was Catholic was associated with a modest decrease in the probability of postpartum surgical sterilizations and a modest increase in the probability of subsequent deliveries.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1001\/jamainternmed.2023.8425","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,3,4]],"date-time":"2024-03-04T16:00:58Z","timestamp":1709568058000},"page":"493","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Catholic Hospital Affiliation and Postpartum Contraceptive Care and Subsequent 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