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Variations in costs for the care of low-birth-weight infants among academic hospitals.
Clin Pediatr (Phila)
May 2010
Department of Pediatrics, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and The Urban Child Institute, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.
Objectives: To determine the relative role that academic hospitals (AHs) play in providing neonatal care for low-birth-weight infants within a single state and to determine if there are variations in inpatient costs for neonatal services among AHs.
Design: Retrospective analysis of hospital costs for low-birth-weight infants.
Setting: Cases were identified using 2003-2005 data from the Tennessee Hospital Discharge Data System.