Health service utilisation for acute respiratory infections in infants graduating from the neonatal intensive care unit: a population-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite advances in neonatal intensive care, babies admitted to Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU) suffer from adverse outcomes. We aim to describe the longer-term respiratory infectious morbidity of infants discharged from NICU using state-wide population-based linked data in Western Australia.

Study design

We used probabilistically linked population-based administrative data to analyse respiratory infection morbidity in a cohort of 23,784 infants admitted to the sole tertiary NICU, born 2002-2013 with follow up to 2015. We analysed incidence rates of secondary care episodes (emergency department presentations and hospitalisations) by acute respiratory infection (ARI) diagnosis, age, gestational age and presence of chronic lung disease (CLD). Poisson regression

SUBMITTER: Stevenson PG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10314380 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature