Advanced Neonatal Medicine in China: A National Baseline Database.

ABSTRACT: Previous surveys of neonatal medicine in China have not collected comprehensive information on workforce, investment, health care practice, and disease expenditure. The goal of the present study was to develop a national database of neonatal care units and compare present outcomes data in conjunction with health care practices and costs. We summarized the above components by extracting data from the databases of the national key clinical subspecialty proposals issued by national health authority in China, as well as publicly accessible databases. Sixty-one newborn clinical units from provincial or ministerial hospitals at the highest level within local areas in mainland China, were included for the study. Data were gathered for three consecutive years (2008-2010) in 28 of 31 provincial dis

SUBMITTER: Liao XP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5242436 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature