Association of Race With Urine Toxicology Testing Among Pregnant Patients During Labor and Delivery

Marian Jarlenski; Jay Shroff; Mishka Terplan; Sarah C M Roberts; Brittany Brown-Podgorski; Elizabeth E Krans

doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2023.0441

Association of Race With Urine Toxicology Testing Among Pregnant Patients During Labor and Delivery

JAMA Health Forum. 2023 Apr 7;4(4):e230441. doi: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2023.0441.

Authors

Marian Jarlenski¹, Jay Shroff¹, Mishka Terplan², Sarah C M Roberts³, Brittany Brown-Podgorski¹, Elizabeth E Krans^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Health Policy and Management, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
² Friends Research Institute, Baltimore, Maryland.
³ Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco.
⁴ Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
⁵ Magee-Womens Research Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Plain language summary

This cohort study assesses the association of race with receipt of urine toxicology testing and a positive test result among pregnant patients admitted to the hospital for delivery.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Letter

MeSH terms

Female
Humans
Labor, Obstetric*
Pregnancy
Urinalysis

Plain language summary

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding