The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the birthing experience overall. A study at Cedars-Sinai conducted in 2020 has shown that COVID-19 protocols have shortened lengths of stay for birthing parents and their infants. To our knowledge, no studies have evaluated whether decreased length of initial delivery hospitalization has been associated with a change in the number of ED visits & readmissions. We hypothesize that although the average length of stay will be shorter in January-February 2021, there will be no difference in the number of ED visits and readmissions.
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Scholarly concentration: Women's Reproductive Health
Brown, Tess, Niehaus, Sarah, Kempner, Marga, et al.,
"Length of Delivery Stay, Postpartum Emergency"
(2021).
Warren Alpert Medical School Academic Symposium.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://doi.org/10.26300/7xm8-fz03
The Warren Alpert Medical School Academic Symposium is an annual event at Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University that provides Year II medical students a venue to present their summer research in a poster format. Participation in the Symposium …