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Neonatal Care

Providing appropriate health care to newborn infants is associated with positive physical and developmental outcomes, often with lasting effects into childhood and adulthood. RAND research related to neonatal care includes studies on premature births and low birth weight babies, infant mortality, care and nutrition, and vulnerable populations.

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May 1, 2006

Policies and Practices Related to Breastfeeding in Massachusetts: Hospital Implementation of the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding

Hospital policies and practices related to breastfeeding may have long-term health effects. The Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding provide an evidence-based standard, which may be used to assess individual hospitals.
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Quality-of-care Indicators for the Neurodevelopmental Follow-Up of Very Low Birth Weight Children: Results of an Expert Panel Process

To develop a set of quality indicators for the neurodevelopmental follow-up care of very low birth weight (VLBW; <1500 g) children
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Impact of Postpartum Hospital-Stay Legislation on Newborn Length of Stay, Readmission, and Mortality in California

The objectives of this study were to examine the impact of postpartum hospital-stay legislation on newborns' length of stay, neonatal readmissions, and 1-year mortality in California, and whether this legislation had differential impacts by demographics and complications during delivery or pregnancy.
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Jan 1, 2005

Mortality Among Very Low-Birthweight Infants in Hospitals Serving Minority Populations

The authors investigated whether the proportion of Black very low-birth-weight (VLBW) infants treated by hospitals is associated with neonatal mortality for Black and White VLBW infants.
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Jan 1, 2004

Is Patient Volume a Useful Quality Measure for Very Low Birthweight Infants?

The goal of the study was to assess how accurately patient volume predicts quality of care for VLBW infants and to compare volume with direct indicators, such as patient mortality.
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Jan 1, 2004

Marginal Increase in Cost and Excess Length of Stay Associated with Nosocomial Bloodstream Infections in Surviving Very Low Birth Weight Infants

Nosocomial bloodstream infections (NBIs) are associated with serious morbidity and prolonged length of stay (LOS) in VLBW infants.
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Jan 1, 2004

Los Anos De La Crisis: An Examination of Change in Differential Infant Mortality Risk Within Mexico

Test the possibility that period of economic hardship characterizing Mexico over the decade 1986-1996 has negatively influenced infant health outcomes
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Jan 1, 2004

Fetal Infants: The Fate of 4172 Infants with Birth Weights of 401 to 500 Grams, the Vermont Oxford Network Experience (1996-2000)

There is very little information about long-term outcomes, as the medical and developmental status of few of these infants has been followed carefully
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Jan 1, 2004

Variations in the Quality of Care for Very-Low-Birthweight Infants: Implications for Policy

Decline in childhood mortality over the past two decades is attributable to improvements in neonatal intensive care for very-low-birthweight infants.
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Indirect Vs Direct Hospital Quality Indicators for Very Low-Birth Weight Infants

Evidence-based selective referral strategies are being used by insurers to ensure that medical care is provided by high-quality providers.
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Longer Postpartum Hospital Stays Are Cost-Effective

Lengthening the time some newborns and their mothers spend in the hospital is more cost-effective than other measures routinely taken to safeguard newborns.
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Guidelines for Palivizumab Prophylaxis: Are They Based on Infant's Risk of Hospitalization for Respiratory Syncytial Viral Disease?

Discrepancies exist between the RSV prophylaxis guidelines and data on the level of risk of hospitalization for RSV disease by GA and lung disease.

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