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- Title
Premature infants born to adolescent mothers: health care utilization after initial discharge.
- Authors
Ray, Kristin N; Escobar, Gabriel J; Lorch, Scott A
- Abstract
Premature infants have increased health care utilization after initial discharge compared with term infants. Young maternal age has been shown to impact health care utilization among term infants, but little is known about the impact of maternal age on health care utilization among premature infants. We compared health care utilization among premature infants of adolescent (aged < or = 19 years) and young adult (aged 20-29 years) mothers, hypothesizing that premature infants of adolescent mothers would have increased acute care utilization, while having decreased preventive care utilization.
- Publication
Academic pediatrics, 2010, Vol 10, Issue 5, p302
- ISSN
1876-2867
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1016/j.acap.2010.07.005