Comparing Pregnancy and Childbirth-Related Hospital Visits in Arizona Before and during COVID-19 Using Network Analysis

20 Pages Posted: 15 Jul 2021

Date Written: June 30, 2021

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a severe effect on all facets of human society, including healthcare. One of the primary concerns in human health and wellbeing is understanding and mitigating the impact of the pandemic on pregnancy and childbirth. While several studies have looked at challenges such as contract tracing of positive cases, predicting confirmed cases and deaths in individuals and communities, few studies have examined differences in hospitalization and treatment of pregnant mothers and infant care in large populations. In this study, the prevalence and co-occurrence of pregnancy and childbirth-related diagnoses reported in Arizona State hospitals for three sixth-month periods - before COVID-19 (second half of 2019), COVID-19 onset (first half of 2020), and COVID-19 (second half of 2020) are analyzed using network analysis. The results show that there are considerable differences in ego networks of few diagnoses during these time periods warranting further investigation into the causality of such population changes.

Note: Funding: Self-funded.

Declaration of Interests: None to declare.

Keywords: Health analytics, Network analysis, Ego networks, Exploratory data analysis (EDA), COVID-19 data analysis, Arizona department of health services, Pre-term and post-term conditions, Pregnancy and childbirth, Newborn diagnoses

Suggested Citation

Jiang, Jinhang and Srinivasan, Karthik, Comparing Pregnancy and Childbirth-Related Hospital Visits in Arizona Before and during COVID-19 Using Network Analysis (June 30, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3877615 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3877615

Jinhang Jiang (Contact Author)

McKesson Corporation ( email )

Overland Park, KS 66085
United States

HOME PAGE: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jinhangjiang/

Karthik Srinivasan

University of Kansas ( email )

1415
Lawrence, KS 66045
United States

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