Rethinking Admission Location for Low Acuity Infants of 35 Weeks' Gestation

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
² Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
³ Department of Pediatrics, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon.

Editorial

Neha S Joshi et al. Pediatrics. 2023.

. 2023 Apr 1;151(4):e2022059996.

doi: 10.1542/peds.2022-059996.

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
² Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
³ Department of Pediatrics, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon.

No abstract available

Comment on

NICU Versus Mother/Baby Unit Admission for Low-Acuity Infants Born at 35 Weeks' Gestation.
Wickremasinghe AC, Kuzniewicz MW, Walsh EM, Li S, Newman TB. Wickremasinghe AC, et al. Pediatrics. 2023 Apr 1;151(4):e2022056861. doi: 10.1542/peds.2022-056861. Pediatrics. 2023. PMID: 36994638

1. Davidoff MJ, Dias T, Damus K, et al. . Changes in the gestational age distribution among U.S. singleton births: impact on rates of late preterm birth, 1992 to 2002. Semin Perinatol. 2006;30(1):8–15 - PubMed
1. Osterman M, Hamilton B, Martin J, et al. . Births: Final Data for 2020. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics; 2021 - PubMed
1. Adamkin DH. Feeding problems in the late preterm infant. Clin Perinatol. 2006;33(4):831–837, abstract ix - PubMed
1. Engle WA, Tomashek KM, Wallman C; Committee on Fetus and Newborn, American Academy of Pediatrics . “Late-preterm” infants: a population at risk. Pediatrics. 2007;120(6):1390–1401 - PubMed
1. Sekar KC. Iatrogenic complications in the neonatal intensive care unit. J Perinatol. 2010;30(Suppl):S51–S56 - PubMed