Title
Neighborhood deprivation increases the risk of Post-induction cesarean delivery
Abstract
Objective: The purpose of this study was to measure the association between neighborhood deprivation and cesarean delivery following labor induction among people delivering at term (>= 37 weeks of gestation). Materials and Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of people >= 37 weeks of gestation, with a live, singleton gestation, who underwent labor induction from 2010 to 2017 at Penn Medicine. We excluded people with a prior cesarean delivery and those with missing geocoding information. Our primary exposure was a nationally validated Area Deprivation Index with scores ranging from 1 to 100 (least to most deprived). We used a generalized linear mixed model to calculate the odds of postinduction cesarean delivery among people in 4 equally-spaced levels of neighborhood deprivation. We also conducted a sensitivity analysis with residential mobility. Results: Our cohort contained 8672 people receiving an induction at Penn Medicine. After adjustment for confounders, we found that people living in the most deprived neighborhoods were at a 29% increased risk of post-induction cesarean delivery (adjusted odds ratio=1.29, 95% confidence interval, 1.05-1.57) compared to the least deprived. In a sensitivity analysis, including residential mobility seemed to magnify the effect sizes of the association between neighborhood deprivation and postinduction cesarean delivery, but this information was only available for a subset of people. Conclusions: People living in neighborhoods with higher deprivation had higher odds of postinduction cesarean delivery compared to people living in less deprived neighborhoods. This work represents an important first step in understanding the impact of disadvantaged neighborhoods on adverse delivery outcomes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1093/jamia/ocab258
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL INFORMATICS ASSOCIATION
Keywords
DocType
Volume
neighborhood deprivation, labor induction, cesarean delivery, maternal health
Journal
29
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
1067-5027
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jessica R Meeker100.34
Heather H Burris200.34
Ray Bai300.34
Lisa D Levine400.34
Mary Regina Boland500.34