Changes in Preterm Birth Phenotypes and Stillbirth at 2 Philadelphia Hospitals During the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic, March-June 2020

JAMA. 2021 Jan 5;325(1):87-89. doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.20991.

Abstract

This study uses data from the GeoBirth pregnancy cohort of all births in 2 hospitals in Philadelphia to examine whether rates of preterm birth, spontaneous preterm birth, medically indicated preterm birth, and stillbirth have changed during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic compared with prepandemic rates.

Publication types

  • Multicenter Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • COVID-19 / epidemiology*
  • COVID-19 / ethnology
  • Delivery, Obstetric / statistics & numerical data
  • Female
  • Fetal Membranes, Premature Rupture / epidemiology
  • Humans
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Obstetric Labor, Premature / epidemiology
  • Pandemics / statistics & numerical data*
  • Phenotype
  • Philadelphia / epidemiology
  • Pregnancy
  • Premature Birth / epidemiology*
  • Premature Birth / ethnology
  • SARS-CoV-2*
  • Stillbirth / epidemiology*
  • Stillbirth / ethnology