Neighborhood Deprivation and Association With Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Mortality and Morbidity for Extremely Premature Infants.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Socioeconomic status affects pregnancy and neurodevelopment, but its association with hospital outcomes among premature infants is unknown. The Area Deprivation Index (ADI) is a validated measure of neighborhood disadvantage that uses US Census Bureau data on income, educational level, employment, and housing quality.

Objective

To determine whether ADI is associated with neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) mortality and morbidity in extremely premature infants.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective cohort study was performed at 4 level IV NICUs in the US Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, and South regions. Non-Hispanic White and Black infants with gestational age of less than 29 weeks and born between January 1, 2012, and December 31, 2020, w

SUBMITTER: Sullivan BA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10176121 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature