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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Obstet Gynecol. 2018 Oct;132(4):916–922. doi: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000002881

Table IV.

Pregnancy Outcomes of Women with Opioid Use Disorder

  Initial Prenatal Opioid Agonist Therapy

Buprenorphine Methadone Overall Rate (95% CI)*

Therapeutic abortion 2 1 6.3 (1.3, 17.2)
Miscarriage 4 0 8.3 (2.3, 20.0)
Still birth 0 1 1.4 (0.0, 7.7)
Live birth 42 37 90.8 (82.7, 95.9)
*

Denominator for miscarriage and therapeutic abortion is women who enrolled in the cohort in the 1st trimester of pregnancy only; denominator for live births is pregnancies with a known outcome; denominator for still births is still birth plus live births; Rate is the proportion x 100%.