Hospital Utilization and Costs Among Preterm Infants by Payer: Nationwide Inpatient Sample, 2009.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe hospital utilization and costs associated with preterm or low birth weight births (preterm/LBW) by payer prior to implementation of the Affordable Care Act and to identify areas for improvement in the quality of care received among preterm/LBW infants.

Methods

Hospital utilization-defined as mean length of stay (LOS, days), secondary diagnoses for birth hospitalizations, primary diagnoses for rehospitalizations, and transfer status-and costs were described among preterm/LBW infants using the 2009 Nationwide Inpatient Sample.

Results

Approximately 9.1 % of included hospitalizations (n = 4,167,900) were births among preterm/LBW infants; however, these birth hospitalizations accounted for 43.4 % of total costs. Rehospitalizations of all infants occ

SUBMITTER: Barradas DT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4794344 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature