Journal article
Outcomes and Resource Utilization For Newborns with Major Congenital Malformations: The Initial NICU Admission
Journal of perinatology, Vol.19(3), pp.212-215
11/16/1999
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jp.7200142
PMID: 10685224
Abstract
Hypothesis: Newborns with major congenital malformations (MCM) have contributed to a significant proportion of resource utilization in a regional referral neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
Setting: The Children's Hospital Medical Center NICU, Cincinnati, OH.
Subjects: Newborns with and without MCM admitted from August 1, 1993 through July 31, 1994. Total patients studied were 572; 147 with and 385 without MCM. No intervention was performed in this observational study.
Statistics: Statistics were t test, chi-squared, and rank sum analysis.
Results: MCM accounted for 27.6% of NICU referrals, 32.4% of total NICU days, and 39.6% of NICU costs. Both median cost per patient and length of stay were significantly (p < 0.01) higher for patients with MCM than those without MCM. Surgery was more frequent in MCM than non-MCM cases. Thirty-three percent of the newborns with MCM received ongoing medical support at discharge.
Conclusion: Patients with MCM remain as one of the largest and costliest groups hospitalized in a referral NICU.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Outcomes and Resource Utilization For Newborns with Major Congenital Malformations: The Initial NICU Admission
- Creators
- Julie B LindowerHarry D AthertonUma R Kotagal
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of perinatology, Vol.19(3), pp.212-215
- DOI
- 10.1038/sj.jp.7200142
- PMID
- 10685224
- ISSN
- 0743-8346
- eISSN
- 1476-5543
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/16/1999
- Academic Unit
- Stead Family Department of Pediatrics; Neonatology
- Record Identifier
- 9984093456802771
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