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Alternative Title:
BMC Infect Dis
Personal Author:
Leung, Jessica ; Cannon, Michael J ; Grosse, Scott D ; Bialek, Stephanie R
Leung, Jessica ; Cannon, Michael J ; Grosse, Scott D ; Bialek, Stephanie R Less -
Description:
Background

Routine cytomegalovirus (CMV) screening during pregnancy is not recommended in the United States and the extent to which it is performed is unknown. Using a medical claims database, we computed rates of CMV-specific testing among pregnant women.

Methods

We used medical claims from the 2009 Truven Health MarketScan® Commercial databases. We computed CMV-specific testing rates using CPT codes.

Results

We identified 77,773 pregnant women, of whom 1,668 (2%) had a claim for CMV-specific testing. CMV-specific testing was significantly associated with older age, Northeast or urban residence, and a diagnostic code for mononucleosis. We identified 44 women with a diagnostic code for mononucleosis, of whom 14% had CMV-specific testing.

Conclusions

Few pregnant women had CMV-specific testing, suggesting that screening for CMV infection during pregnancy is not commonly performed. In the absence of national surveillance for CMV infections during pregnancy, healthcare claims are a potential source for monitoring practices of CMV-specific testing.


Subject:
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Adolescent
Adult
Cytomegalovirus Infections
Female
Humans
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Complications, Infectious
Retrospective Studies
Young Adult

Source:
BMC Infect Dis. 2012; 12:334.
Document Type:
Journal Article
Place as Subject:
United States
Collection(s):
CDC Public Access
Main Document Checksum:
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urn:sha256:9cc813e3d7d504e3153f697215fa18fff99700ee9f2c544a6dc5bc1414e27779
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