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The aim of the study is to determine 30-day postpartum readmission rates by patient-level social determinants of health: race ethnicity, primary insurance payer, and median income, independently and as effect modifiers.<\/jats:p><jats:p>\n            Study Design\u2003Using state inpatient databases from the health care cost and utilization project from 2007 to 2014, we queried all deliveries. To produce accurate estimates of the effects of parturients' social determinants of health on readmission odds while controlling for confounders, generalized linear mixed models (GLMMs) were used. Additional models were generated with interaction terms to highlight any associations and their effect on the outcome. Adjusted odds ratios (aOR) with 95% confidence intervals are reported.<\/jats:p><jats:p>\n            Results\u2003There were 5,129,867 deliveries with 79,260 (1.5%) 30-day readmissions. Of these, 947 (1.2%) were missing race ethnicity. Black and Hispanic patients were more likely to be readmitted within 30 days of delivery, as compared with White patients (p\u2009&lt;\u20090.001 and p\u2009&lt;\u20090.05, respectively). Patients with government insurance were more likely to be readmitted than those with private insurance (p\u2009&lt;\u20090.001). Patients living in the second quartile of median income were also more likely to be readmitted than those living in other quartiles (p\u2009&lt;\u20090.05). Using GLMMs, we observed that Black patients with Medicare were significantly more likely to get readmitted as compared with White patients with private insurance (aOR 2.78, 95% CI 2.50\u20133.09, p\u2009&lt;\u20090.001). Similarly, Black patients living in the fourth (richest) quartile of median income were more likely to get readmitted, even when compared with White patients living in the first (poorest) quartile of median income (aOR 1.48, 95% CI 1.40\u20131.57, p\u2009&lt;\u20090.001).<\/jats:p><jats:p>\n            Conclusion\u2003Significant racial-ethnic disparities in obstetric readmissions were observed, particularly in Black patients with government insurance and even in Black patients living in the richest quartile of median income.<\/jats:p><jats:p>\n            Key Points\n          <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1055\/s-0041-1739310","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,10]],"date-time":"2021-11-10T23:46:55Z","timestamp":1636588015000},"page":"125-133","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["Disparities in Obstetric Readmissions: A Multistate Analysis, 2007\u20132014"],"prefix":"10.1055","volume":"39","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1048-418X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kathy C.","family":"Matthews","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Virginia E.","family":"Tangel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anesthesiology, Center for Perioperative Outcomes, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Sharon E.","family":"Abramovitz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anesthesiology, Center for Perioperative Outcomes, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Laura E.","family":"Riley","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Robert S.","family":"White","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anesthesiology, Center for Perioperative Outcomes, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"194","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,10]]},"reference":[{"issue":"04","key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"347","DOI":"10.1001\/jama.2015.6507","article-title":"The Medicare Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program: time for reform","volume":"314","author":"A S Boozary","year":"2015","journal-title":"JAMA"},{"issue":"01","key":"ref2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"113.e1","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ajog.2016.01.174","article-title":"A multi-state analysis of postpartum readmissions in the United States","volume":"215","author":"M A Clapp","year":"2016","journal-title":"Am J Obstet Gynecol"},{"issue":"04","key":"ref3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"847","DOI":"10.1016\/j.clp.2014.08.008","article-title":"Conquering racial disparities in perinatal outcomes","volume":"41","author":"E Willis","year":"2014","journal-title":"Clin Perinatol"},{"issue":"05","key":"ref4","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1040","DOI":"10.1097\/AOG.0000000000001090","article-title":"Racial and ethnic disparities in hospital readmissions after delivery","volume":"126","author":"R H Aseltine Jr","year":"2015","journal-title":"Obstet Gynecol"},{"issue":"05","key":"ref5","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"484.e1","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ajog.2019.02.016","article-title":"Maternal outcomes by race during postpartum readmissions","volume":"220","author":"A Aziz","year":"2019","journal-title":"Am J Obstet Gynecol"},{"issue":"10","key":"ref6","first-page":"760","article-title":"Scheduled and unscheduled hospital readmissions among patients with diabetes","volume":"16","author":"H Kim","year":"2010","journal-title":"Am J Manag Care"},{"issue":"07","key":"ref7","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"675","DOI":"10.1001\/jama.2011.123","article-title":"Thirty-day readmission rates for Medicare beneficiaries by race and site of care","volume":"305","author":"K E Joynt","year":"2011","journal-title":"JAMA"},{"issue":"01","key":"ref8","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"53","DOI":"10.1161\/CIRCOUTCOMES.110.950964","article-title":"Who has higher readmission rates for heart failure, and why? 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