Changes in Hospital Care of Newborn Infants with Trisomy 13.

Objective: To examine the changes over recent years in neonatal survival to discharge, prevalence of adverse events, surgical procedures, tracheostomy and/or gastrostomy tube (G-tube) placement, and length of stay (LOS) in infants with Trisomy 13.

Methods: We identified newborn infants with Trisomy 13 in the National Inpatient Sample in the years 2003-2018. We calculated prevalence of associated conditions.

Placental abruption and risk for intraventricular hemorrhage in very low birth weight infants: the United States national inpatient database.

Objective: To examine the association of placental abruption with intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) in very low birth weight (VLBW) infants.

Methods: We examined the National Inpatient Sample (NIS) datasets. Preterm infants <1500 g birth weight (BW) were included.

Hospital Factors Associated with the Survival of Infants Born at Periviable Gestation: The USA National Database.

Reports on the survival of infants born at periviable gestation (GA of ≤24 weeks and birth weight of <500 gm) vary significantly. We aimed to determine hospital factors associated with their survival and to assess the trend for the timing of postnatal mortality in these periviable infants. We utilized the de-identified National Inpatient Sample (NIS) dataset of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).