Early hospital discharge and readmission jaundice in term babies
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Early discharge of infants and risk of readmission for jaundice.
OBJECTIVES To examine the association between early discharge from hospital after birth and readmission to hospital for jaundice among term infants, and among infants discharged early, to investigate the perinatal risk factors for readmission for jaundice. METHODS Birth data for 781,074 term live-born infants born in New South Wales, Australia from 2001 to 2010 were linked to hospital admissi...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Contemporary Pediatrics
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2349-3291,2349-3283
DOI: 10.18203/2349-3291.ijcp20200107