ArticleJournal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association2026
Disparities in delivery hospital risk-adjusted outcomes for very low birthweight infants: the role of NICU volume and level of care.
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objectiveDescribe racial and ethnic differences in delivery hospital NICU risk-adjusted mortality and morbidity rates (RAMMR), stratified by volume and level of care. STUDY
designCross-sectional analysis of all very low birthweight (<1500 g; VLBW) infants born in Michigan, Oregon, and South Carolina between 2010 and 2020 and Pennsylvania between 2010 and 2018 (n = 37,784). Lorenz concentration curves and indices were used to describe differences in NICU RAMMR by race and ethnicity. Analysis was performed for overall cohort; high-level, high-volume NICUs; and low-level and/or low-volume NICUs.
resultDespite being most frequently born at high-level, high-volume centers, Non-Hispanic Black (NHB) neonates were overrepresented at hospitals with high RAMMR and all other groups were overrepresented at hospitals with lower RAMMR. Differences were most pronounced in the low-level and/or low-volume cohort.
conclusionNHB VLBW infants born at hospitals with low-level and/or low-volume NICUs are disproportionately exposed to adverse outcomes and must be the focus of future policy interventions.
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