Maternal and Perinatal Morbidity and Mortality Associated With Anemia in Pregnancy.

Objective: To estimate the incidence of anemia in pregnancy and compare the maternal and perinatal outcomes of women with and without anemia.

Methods: We conducted a population-based retrospective cohort study on all pregnant women in British Columbia who had a live birth or stillbirth at or after 20 weeks of gestation between 2004 and 2016. Women were diagnosed with anemia based on two criteria: third-trimester hemoglobin value or a delivery admission diagnosis of anemia (made before delivery).

New pricing approaches for bundled payments: Leveraging clinical standards and regional variations to target avoidable utilization.

Objectives: Develop pricing models for bundled payments that draw inputs from clinician-defined best practice standards and benchmarks set from regional variations in utilization.

Data: Health care utilization and claims data for a cohort of incident Ontario ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke episodes. Episodes of care are created by linking incident stroke hospitalizations with subsequent health service utilization across multiple datasets.