Rates of Spontaneous Abortion in Israel Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Yael Travis-Lumer; Yair Goldberg; Arad Kodesh; Abraham Reichenberg; Sven Sandin; Sophia Frangou; Stephen Z Levine

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.0233

Rates of Spontaneous Abortion in Israel Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Feb 1;6(2):e230233. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.0233.

Authors

Yael Travis-Lumer¹, Yair Goldberg¹, Arad Kodesh², Abraham Reichenberg³, Sven Sandin³, Sophia Frangou⁴, Stephen Z Levine⁵

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
² Mental Health Department, Meuhedet Health Services, Tel Aviv, Israel.
³ Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
⁵ School of Public Health, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.

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Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study uses electronic health record data to compare monthly incidence rates of spontaneous abortion in Israel before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

MeSH terms

Abortion, Induced*
Abortion, Spontaneous* / epidemiology
COVID-19*
Female
Humans
Israel
Pandemics
Pregnancy