Maternal hospitalizations and sepsis PHC4 Research briefs Hospitalization -- statistics & numerical data Pregnancy Complications Sepsis -- epidemiology This research brief focuses on patients hospitalized for a delivery or other pregnancy related condition who also had a diagnosis of sepsis. Sepsis is a life-threatening condition characterized by a system-wide inflammatory response to infection that can worsen to acute organ dysfunction. Included are Pennsylvania female residents and non-residents ages 12-55 who were hospitalized for a maternal stay and discharged from a Pennsylvania acute care hospital from October 2015 through September 2020. For the maternal stays with a diagnosis of sepsis, the sepsis could have developed prior to the hospitalization or during the hospital stay. The results in this report were not adjusted for age or other patient characteristics to avoid masking important sociodemographic differences. [Harrisburg, PA] : Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council, May 2021 Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council, issuing body. Technical Report Text Illustrations 1 online resource (1 PDF file (3 pages)) nlm:nlmuid-9918402086606676-pdf 9918402086606676 http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918402086606676 English Pennsylvania United States The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0