Table 1.
Characteristics of patients admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit in the pre– and intra–COVID-19 groups (N=712).
| Characteristics | Pre–COVID-19 group (n=386) | Intra–COVID-19 group (n=326) | ||
| Demographic information | ||||
|
|
Age (days), median (IQR) | 0.0 (0.0-0.0); maximum, 149.0 | 0.0 (0.0-0.0); max-imum, 97.0 | |
|
|
Sex, n (%) | |||
|
|
Female | 159 (41.2) | 134 (41.1) | |
|
|
Male | 159 (41.2) | 134 (41.1) | |
|
|
Race, n (%) | |||
|
|
White | 258 (66.8) | 231 (70.9) | |
|
|
African American | 64 (16.6) | 43 (13.2) | |
|
|
Asian | 16 (4.1) | 6 (1.8) | |
|
|
Other | 47 (12.2) | 46 (14.1) | |
|
|
Ethnicity, n (%) | |||
|
|
Non-Hispanic | 331 (85.8) | 283 (86.8) | |
|
|
Latino | 50 (13.0) | 32 (9.8) | |
|
|
Unknown | 5 (1.3) | 11 (3.4) | |
| Outcomes | ||||
|
|
Length of stay, median (IQR) | 10.0 (4.0-20.0) | 9.0 (3.3-21.8) | |
|
|
Hospital disposition, n (%) | |||
|
|
Home | 354 (91.7) | 299 (91.7) | |
|
|
Expired | 27 (7.0) | 16 (4.9) | |
|
|
Hospice | 2 (0.5) | 2 (0.6) | |
|
|
Short-term hospital | 3 (0.8) | 8 (2.4) | |
|
|
Others | 0 (0) | 1 (0.3) | |