In January 2017 investigators started a Center for Peripartum Optimization (CPO) with the aim of optimizing a patient's clinical status in an outpatient setting to minimize unnecessary laboratory tests and studies, costly inpatient consultations, the likelihood of post-surgical adverse events, escalations in level of care, inpatient admissions and readmissions. This research project seeks to evaluate the impact of this innovative concept on patient outcomes during the last 12 months. Investigators will accomplish this by collecting retrospective data from patients' electronic medical records in the intervention group and comparing it to data gathered from a controlled group of patients with similar comorbidities but who were not evaluated at the CPO clinic.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
250
We will be doing a retrospective chart review of patients seen in the Center for Peripartum Optimization to look for: 1. Primary outcome variable. \- Hospital length of stay 2. Secondary outcome variables. * Number of admissions from outside hospitals * Adverse outcomes * Intensive Care Unit admissions * Opioid use * NICU admissions * Patient satisfaction * Cost of inpatient admission * Cost of outpatient care * Hospital readmissions rate
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Hospital length of stay
Total days of hospital admission
Time frame: 1 year
Number of admissions from outside hospitals
The total number of admissions to any other hospitals prior to admission or after discharge
Time frame: 1 year
ICU admissions
Whether patient needed ICU admission or transfer
Time frame: 1 year
Opioids use
To determine if patient require opioid use
Time frame: 1 year
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) admissions
Number of times a neonate got admitted to the NICU
Time frame: 1 year
Patient satisfaction
Whether patient was satisfied (yes/no) with treatment course based on survey filled out by patient.
Time frame: 1 year
Cost of inpatient admission
the entire admission cost of admission during hospital stay
Time frame: 1 year
Cost of outpatient care
The cost for outpatient care incurred by patient
Time frame: 1 year
Hospital readmissions rate
The number of times a patient got readmitted after discharge
Time frame: 1 year
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