Publications by authors named "Shikha Rawat"
Objectives: Our objective was to evaluate the trend and to assess the impact of maternal region of residence in Western New York (WNY), on severe neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS).
Study Design: Term infants' born at gestational age greater than or equal to 37 weeks with severe NOWS, defined as withdrawal resulting in the receipt of pharmacologic therapy from WNY admitted to our neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) from January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2016, were included. Severe NOWS admissions to our NICU from the following five regions were controlled with birth and insurance data: (1) Urban North, (2) Erie Coastal, (3) Niagara Frontier, (4) Southern Tier, and (5) Urban South.