Table 2.
Proportion of births with a given condition that were admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit, overall sample, and variation across hospitals.
| Diagnosis severity and category | Overall sample | Variation across hospitals | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # of births with a given condition | Length of hospital stay, mean ± SD | # of births with a given condition that were admitted to NICU | % Admitted to NICU | # of hospitalsa | Median (IQR) | Coefficient of variation | |
| Severe | 6167 | 8.8 ± 13.8 | 5423 | 87.9 | 35 | 87.8 (81.5–91.5) | 8.8 |
| Moderate | 5579 | 7.6 ± 6.2 | 4040 | 72.4 | 34 | 73.5 (65.0–79.8) | 14.1 |
| Mild | |||||||
| Respiratory | 7460 | 2.4 ± 0.9 | 2954 | 39.6 | 35 | 37.5 (20.9–50.9) | 52.0 |
| Hypoglycemia | 1734 | 3.0 ± 2.6 | 567 | 32.7 | 26 | 31.4 (25.0–43.2) | 46.4 |
| Drug exposure/NAS | 1181 | 2.8 ± 2.9 | 231 | 19.6 | 12 | 15.9 (9.2–23.8) | 52.4 |
| Suspected infection | 20,222 | 2.3 ± 1.4 | 3072 | 15.2 | 35 | 17.4 (8.4–32.8) | 74.0 |
| Hyperbilirubinemia | 53,630 | 2.6 ± 1.1 | 2441 | 4.6 | 35 | 3.9 (2.4–8.3) | 70.1 |
| 1 mild condition | 64,941 | 2.5 ± 1.2 | 3387 | 5.2 | 35 | 4.7 (2.3–7.40) | 82.9 |
| ≥2 mild conditions | 9169 | 3.2 ± 2.5 | 2663 | 29.0 | 34 | 36.4 (19.8–46.4) | 51.6 |
IQR interquartile range, NAS neonatal abstinence syndrome, SD standard deviation.
aLimited to hospitals with at least 25 births with the given condition.