Estimating the effect of prenatal care on birth outcomes

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Abstract

Using data from official hospital abstracts on deliveries occurred in Sardinia during years 2010 and 2011, we implemented an Augmented Inverse Probability Weighted (AIPW) model in order to study the effect of increased prenatal care during pregnancy on birth outcomes. Results showed that moderate levels of prenatal care, as measured by the number of sonograms, increase the Apgar score of the infant, while a higher number of sonograms do not have any additional marginal effect on the outcome.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCLADAG 2015 - 10°Scientific Meeting of the Classification and Data Analysis Group of the Italian Statistical Society. Book of Abstracts
Pages687-692
Number of pages6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016
Event10°Scientific Meeting of the Classification and Data Analysis Group of the Italian Statistical Society - Cagliari
Duration: 8 Oct 201510 Oct 2015

Conference

Conference10°Scientific Meeting of the Classification and Data Analysis Group of the Italian Statistical Society
CityCagliari
Period8/10/1510/10/15

Keywords

  • Prenata care

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