Trends in Resources for Neonatal Intensive Care at Delivery Hospitals for Infants Born Younger Than 30 Weeks' Gestation, 2009-2020.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

In an ideal regionalized system, all infants born very preterm would be delivered at a large tertiary hospital capable of providing all necessary care.

Objective

To examine whether the distribution of extremely preterm births changed between 2009 and 2020 based on neonatal intensive care resources at the delivery hospital.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective cohort study was conducted at 822 Vermont Oxford Network (VON) centers in the US between 2009 and 2020. Participants included infants born at 22 to 29 weeks' gestation, delivered at or transferred to centers participating in the VON. Data were analyzed from February to December 2022.

Exposures

Hospital of birth at 22 to 29 weeks' gestation.

Main outcomes and measures

Birth

SUBMITTER: Boghossian NS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10163386 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature