ArticleArchives of disease in childhood2005
Rehospitalisation after birth hospitalisation: patterns among infants of all gestations.
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- Clofibrate in combination with phototherapy for unconjugated neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2012Pooled it
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- Need for Repeat-Hospitalization in Very Low Birth Weight or Very Preterm Infants: A Prospective Cohort Study.Indian journal of pediatrics · 2025Article
- Association of early follow-up visits with reduced hospital readmissions of newborns: a French population-based data-linkage study.World journal of pediatrics : WJP · 2024Article
- A Comparative Analysis of Language Skills and Parent-Child Interactions in Monolingual and Bilingual Children Born Preterm.Languages (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Predicting the risk of 7-day readmission in late preterm infants in California: A population-based cohort study.Health science reports · 2023Article
- Neonatal presentations to the paediatric emergency department in Singapore.Singapore medical journal · 2022Article
- Incidence, Risk Factors, and Reasons for 30-Day Hospital Readmission Among Healthy Late Preterm Infants.Hospital pediatrics · 2022Article
- Current status of unplanned readmission of neonates within 31 days after discharge from the neonatal intensive care unit and risk factors for readmission.Zhongguo dang dai er ke za zhi = Chinese journal of contemporary pediatrics · 2022Article
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Abstract
aimTo analyse rehospitalisation of newborns of all gestations.
methodsA total of 33,276 surviving infants of all gestations born between 1 October 1998 and 31 March 2000 at seven Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program (KPMCP) delivery services were studied retrospectively.
resultsRehospitalisation rates within two weeks after nursery discharge ranged from 1.0% to 3.7%. The most common reason for rehospitalisation was jaundice. Among babies > or =34 weeks, the most important factor with respect to rehospitalisation was use of home phototherapy. Among babies who were not rehospitalised for jaundice, African-American race (adjusted odds ratio (AOR) = 0.56), and having a scheduled outpatient visit (AOR = 0.73) or a home visit (AOR = 0.59) within 72 hours after discharge were protective. Factors associated with increased risk were: being small for gestational age (AOR = 1.83), gestational age of 34-36 weeks without admission to the neonatal intensive care unit (AOR = 1.65), Score for Neonatal Acute Physiology, version II, > or =10 (AOR = 1.95), male gender (AOR = 1.24), having both a home as well as a clinic visit within 72 hours after discharge (AOR = 1.84), and birth facility (range of AORs = 1.52-2.36). Asian race was associated with rehospitalisation (AOR = 1.49) when all hospitalisations were considered, but this association did not persist if hospitalisations for jaundice were excluded.
conclusionsIn this insured population with access to integrated care, rehospitalisation rates for jaundice were strongly affected by availability of home phototherapy and by follow up. For other causes, moderate prematurity and follow up visits played a large role, but variation between centres persisted even after controlling for multiple factors. Future research should include development of better process measures for evaluation of follow up strategies.
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