Mortality of mothers with opioid-use during pregnancy: an international comparison using linked mother-baby records for England and Ontario

Introduction Opioid-use during pregnancy is indicative of future adversity for mothers and children. We aimed to investigate neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) as a marker of drug-use in pregnancy and to compare maternal all-cause mortality relative to those with infants born without NAS in two hig...

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Main Authors: Astrid Guttmann, Ruth Blackburn, Abigail Amartey, Limei Zhou, Linda Wijlaars, Natasha Saunders, Katie Harron, Ruth Gilbert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Swansea University 2018-09-01
Series:International Journal of Population Data Science
Online Access:https://ijpds.org/article/view/916