A recent article in the Patient Safety and Quality Insider newsletter highlights a health system model developed as a result of a national study of women aged 18 to 44 showing that complicated pregnancies are growing more prevalent in the United States, rising by 16.4% from 2014 to 2018. The same study, which looked at 1.8 million pregnancies, revealed that childbirth complications increased by about 14% from 2014 to 2018.
