DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2022.105934
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Child Abuse & Neglect
Abstract
A retrospective matched cohort study was conducted using billing data extracted from between 2003 and 2016 in North Texas hospitals. The sample included 595 pediatric patients diagnosed with NOWS (i.e. exposed). The unexposed were patients not diagnosed with NOWS and matched 4:1 on sex, age at first encounter, and ethnicity to the exposed who received care during the same period. Multi-level regression models (accounting for clustered data structure of multiple visits per patient) compared number of hospitalizations, number of outpatient visits, number of emergency department (ED) visits, average length of stay, and healthcare expenditures across patients with and without NOWS.
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Publication Date
12-2022
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Malthaner LQ, Jetelina KK, Loria H, McLeigh JD. Healthcare utilization among children with a history of neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome: A matched cohort study. Child Abuse Negl. 2022 Dec;134:105934. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2022.105934. Epub 2022 Oct 24. PMID: 36302288.
