ArticlePediatrics2012
Hospitalization of rural and urban infants during the first year of life.
Article in Pediatrics, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Rural-urban differences in health care access for postpartum parent and infant dyads.The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association · 2025Article
- Outcome in very preterm infants: a population-based study from a regional center in Austria.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2024Article
- The Role of Caregiver-Reported Risks in Predicting Adverse Pediatric Outcomes.Journal of pediatric psychology · 2020Article
- Hospital admissions in the first year of life: inequalities over three decades in a southern Brazilian city.International journal of epidemiology · 2019Article
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- Characteristics of Rural Children Admitted to Pediatric Hospitals.Pediatrics · 2016Article
- Rehospitalization during the first year of life by insurance status.Clinical pediatrics · 2014Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo examine hospitalizations and length of stay (LOS) for infants aged <1 year in rural and urban counties, hypothesizing that infants living in rural counties experience significantly different hospital use compared with urban infants.
methodsBirth certificates for infants born in California hospitals between 1993 and 2005 and surviving to discharge were linked to hospital discharge records and death certificates during the first year of life, resulting in a study population of >6.4 million. Hospitalizations, cumulative LOS, readmission rates, and mortality were compared by using univariate and multivariable analysis for infants living in small rural, large rural, small urban, and large urban counties. Odds of hospitalization and cumulative LOS were also examined for common infant diagnoses.
resultsInfants living in increasingly rural counties experienced decreasing rates of hospitalization and decreasing number of hospitalized days during the first year of life. Infants living in small rural counties experienced 370 hospital days per 1000 infants compared with 474 hospital days per 1000 infants living in large urban counties. In multivariable analysis, infants in large urban counties experienced increased odds of hospitalization (odds ratio: 1.20 [95% confidence interval: 1.06-1.36]) and increased hospitalized days (incidence risk ratio: 1.17 [95% confidence interval: 1.06-1.29]) compared with infants in small rural counties. For most common diagnoses, urban residence was associated with either increased odds of hospitalization or increased cumulative LOS.
conclusionsInfants living in rural California counties experienced decreased hospital utilization, including decreased hospitalization and decreased LOS, compared with infants living in urban counties.
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