Non-health care costs associated with neonatal intensive care unit visitation

Affiliations

¹ Department of Health Policy and Management, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, United States.
² Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, United States.
³ Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20724, United States.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States.

Rebecca A Gourevitch et al. Health Aff Sch. 2025.

. 2025 Feb 28;3(3):qxaf043.

doi: 10.1093/haschl/qxaf043. eCollection 2025 Mar.

¹ Department of Health Policy and Management, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, United States.
² Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, United States.
³ Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20724, United States.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States.

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Keywords: NICU care; children’s health; costs of care; costs of caregiving.

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Conflicts of interest: Please see ICMJE form(s) for author conflicts of interest. These have been provided as supplementary materials.

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