Early Hospital Discharge for Very-Low-Birth-Weight Infants Letter

Combs-Orme, T, Fishbein, J, Summerville, C et al. (1987). Early Hospital Discharge for Very-Low-Birth-Weight Infants . New England Journal of Medicine, 316(10), 629-630. 10.1056/NEJM198703053161014

cited authors

  • Combs-Orme, T; Fishbein, J; Summerville, C; Maniscalco, WM; Kendig, JW; Pincus, HA; Daga, SR; Brooten, D; Kumar, S; Brown, L; Finkler, S; Butts, P; Bakewell-Sachs, S; Gibbons, A; Delivoria-Papadopoulos, M

abstract

  • To the Editor: Brooten et al. (Oct. 9 issue)1 reported on early hospital discharge with home follow-up of very-low-birth-weight infants. We are investigating a cohort of 97 very-low-birth-weight infants who were discharged from the hospital after a mean (±SD) of 52.9±25.1 days and at a mean weight of 2065.5±21.6 g, excluding 22 infants transferred to other hospitals because of over-crowding or parental desire. Sixty-seven infants (69.1 percent) spent some time in a progressive nursery to which they were transferred from the neonatal intensive care unit after their condition was stabilized. Our high-risk group, sampled from a charity hospital neonatal intensive. © 1987, Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved.

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publication date

  • March 5, 1987

published in

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start page

  • 629

end page

  • 630

volume

  • 316

issue

  • 10