Objective: To evaluate the hospital cost of newborn infants diagnosed with sepsis from the perspective of the Brazilian Public Health System over 11 years.
Method: Cross-sectional study that analyzed secondary data from the databases of the Hospital Information System of the Brazilian Public Health System. Infants hospitalized between 0‒29 days after birth with a diagnosis of sepsis from 2008 to 2018 were included.
Eur J Paediatr Neurol
July 2022
Background: Intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) is a serious problem in preterm infants. Brazilian national data are unknown.
Objective: To evaluate the incidence and temporal trend of IVH in very low birth weight (VLBW) preterm infants of 18 centers of the Brazilian Network on Neonatal Research.
Objective: To analyze the hospital costs and the effectiveness of antenatal corticosteroid (ACS) therapy in a cohort of Brazilian preterm infants.
Methods: Infants with gestational age (GA) 26 to 32 weeks, born between 2006 and 2009 in a tertiary university hospital and who survived hospitalization were included. A decision tree was built according to GA (26-27, 28-29, 30-31 and 32 weeks), assuming that each patient exposed or not to ACS may or not develop one of the clinical outcomes included in the model.
Objective: To estimate the costs of hospitalization in premature infants exposed or not to antenatal corticosteroids (ACS).
Method: Retrospective cohort analysis of premature infants with gestational age of 26-32 weeks without congenital malformations, born between January of 2006 and December of 2009 in a tertiary, public university hospital. Maternal and neonatal demographic data, neonatal morbidities, and hospital inpatient services during the hospitalization were collected.