Statewide Severe Maternal Morbidity Review in Illinois.

Objective: To address rising rates of severe maternal morbidity and persistent racial disparities, Illinois established severe maternal morbidity review in all obstetric hospitals. The purpose of this study is to describe the findings from the statewide severe maternal morbidity review in 2018.

Methods: This is a retrospective analysis of a hospital-level severe maternal morbidity review that occurred in 2018 (n=408) compared with all 2018 Illinois live births (n=141,595), inclusive of any severe maternal morbidity cases resulting in a live birth before hospital discharge.

Leveraging Existing Birth Defects Surveillance Infrastructure to Build Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Surveillance Systems - Illinois, New Mexico, and Vermont, 2015-2016.

Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) is a drug withdrawal syndrome that can occur following prenatal exposure to opioids (1). NAS surveillance in the United States is based largely on diagnosis codes in hospital discharge data, without validation of these codes or case confirmation. During 2004-2014, reported NAS incidence increased from 1.