ArticleJournal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association2015
Association of unit size, resource utilization and occupancy with outcomes of preterm infants.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Are birth outcomes in low risk birth cohorts related to hospital birth volumes? A systematic review.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2021Pooled it
- A systematic review of neonatal treatment intensity scores and their potential application in low-resource setting hospitals for predicting mortality, morbidity and estimating resource use.Systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- The Association Between Hospital Capacity Strain and Inpatient Outcomes in Highly Developed Countries: A Systematic Review.Journal of general internal medicine · 2017Pooled it
- Neonatologist staffing is related to the inter-hospital variation of risk-adjusted mortality of very low birth weight infants in Korea.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Association of Shift-Level Organizational Factors with Nosocomial Infection in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.Journal of pediatrics. Clinical practice · 2024Article
- Withdrawal and withholding of life sustaining treatment (WWLST): an under recognised factor in the morbidity or mortality of periviable infants?-a narrative review.Translational pediatrics · 2024Review
- Outcome in very preterm infants: a population-based study from a regional center in Austria.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2024Article
- Neonatal intensive care unit occupancy rate and probability of discharge of very preterm infants.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2023Article
- Associations between unit workloads and outcomes of first extubation attempts in extremely premature infants below a gestational age of 26 weeks.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2023Article
- Overnight staffing in Canadian neonatal and pediatric intensive care units.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2023Article
- Advanced neonatal medicine in China: Is newborn ward capacity associated with inpatient antibiotic usage?PloS one · 2019Article
- Volume, size, professionals' specialization and nutrition management of NICUs and their association with treatment quality in VLBW infants.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2018Article
- Association of nursing overtime, nurse staffing and unit occupancy with medical incidents and outcomes of very preterm infants.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2018Article
- Introduction of microsystems in a level 3 neonatal intensive care unit-an interprofessional approach.BMC health services research · 2017Article
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Abstract
objectiveAssess association of NICU size, and occupancy rate and resource utilization at admission with neonatal outcome. STUDY
designRetrospective cohort study of 9978 infants born at 23-32 weeks gestation and admitted to 23 tertiary-level Canadian NICUs during 2010-2012. Adjusted odds ratios (AOR) were estimated for a composite outcome of mortality/any major morbidity with respect to NICU size, occupancy rate and intensity of resource utilization at admission.
resultsA total of 2889 (29%) infants developed the composite outcome, the odds of which were higher for 16-29, 30-36 and >36-bed NICUs compared with <16-bed NICUs (AOR (95% CI): 1.47 (1.25-1.73); 1.49 (1.25-1.78); 1.55 (1.29-1.87), respectively) and for NICUs with higher resource utilization at admission (AOR: 1.30 (1.08-1.56), Q4 vs Q1) but not different according to NICU occupancy.
conclusionLarger NICUs and more intense resource utilization at admission are associated with higher odds of a composite adverse outcome in very preterm infants.
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