Abstract
Risk Factors for Hospital Readmission and Follow Up after NICU Discharge of Infants Born at Extremely Low Gestational Age in Metropolitan Melbourne
Highlights
Re-hospitalization after initial discharge from Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) for preterm infants has been examined in various settings across the world [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13]
Neonatal meningitis was more common in patients who required post NICU discharge hospital re-admission
Re-hospitalization after initial discharge from NICU for preterm infants has been examined in various settings across the world [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13]
Summary
Re-hospitalization after initial discharge from NICU for preterm infants has been examined in various settings across the world [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13]. Within Australasia there are few studies highlighting subsequent outcomes of infants born preterm [1,2,9,1418]. Some of these papers were from the pre-surfactant era where neonatal care was significantly different from current neonatal care [15,16,17,18]. Hospital readmissions as an outcome of ELGAN is only reported in one study so far within Australasia [14]. Preterm infants, < 28 week of gestational age, (ELGANs) continue to need high levels of health-care post-discharge from the NICU. We studied postNICU hospital contacts of this highly vulnerable population and present data from infants treated in our health network
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