ArticleAmerican journal of perinatology2020
Disparities in Health Care-Associated Infections in the NICU.
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- Understanding the Domains of Experiences of Black Mothers with Preterm Infants in the United States: A Systematic Literature Review.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2023Pooled it
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- The effect of family integrated care on the prognosis of premature infants.BMC pediatrics · 2022Trial
- Trends and Interhospital Variability of NICU Bloodstream Infections in Korea.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Racial disparities in healthcare-associated infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Infection control and hospital epidemiology · 2026Article
- The Development and Progress of Health Information Technology in Iran.Health science reports · 2025Article
- Development and Validation of a Nosocomial Infection Nomogram Model in the NICU: A Novel and Nurse-Led Way to Prediction in Preterm Infants.Infection and drug resistance · 2025Article
- Disparities in Survival Without Major Morbidity Among Very Low Birth Weight Infants in California.Pediatrics · 2024Article
- Health Disparities in the Management and Outcomes of Critically Ill Children and Neonates: A Scoping Review.Critical care clinics · 2024Article
- Environmental influences on child health outcomes: cohorts of individuals born very preterm.Pediatric research · 2023Review
- Contaminated Incubators: Source of a Multispecies Enterobacter Outbreak of Neonatal Sepsis.Microbiology spectrum · 2022Article
- Evaluating Care in Safety Net Hospitals: Clinical Outcomes and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Quality of Care in California.The Journal of pediatrics · 2022Article
- Unequal care: Racial/ethnic disparities in neonatal intensive care delivery.Seminars in perinatology · 2021Review
- Multilevel social factors and NICU quality of care in California.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2021Article
- Device-associated infections in neonatal care units in a middle-income country, 2016-2018.Jornal de pediatriaObservational
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Abstract
objectivesThis study aimed to examine multilevel risk factors for health care-associated infection (HAI) among very low birth weight (VLBW) infants with a focus on race/ethnicity and its association with variation in infection across hospitals. STUDY
designThis is a population-based cohort study of 20,692 VLBW infants born between 2011 and 2015 in the California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative.
resultsRisk-adjusted infection rates varied widely across neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), ranging from 0 to 24.6% across 5 years. Although Hispanic infants had higher odds of HAI overall, race/ethnicity did not affect the variation in infection rates. Non-Hispanic black mothers were more likely to receive care in NICUs within the top tertile of infection risk. Yet, among NICUs in this tertile, infants across all races and ethnicities suffered similar high rates of infection.
conclusionHispanic infants had higher odds of infection. We found significant variation in infection across NICUs, even after accounting for factors usually associated with infection.
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