Association of Rooming-in With Outcomes for Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome

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Authors

Kathryn Dee L. MacMillan · Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center

Cassandra P. Rendon · Dartmouth College

Kanak Verma · Dartmouth College

Natalie Riblet · Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice

David B. Washer · Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice

Alison Volpe Holmes · Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice

Abstract

Opioid-exposed newborns rooming-in with mother or other family members appear to be significantly less likely to be treated with pharmacotherapy and have substantial reductions in LOS compared with those cared for in NICUs. Rooming-in should be recommended as a preferred inpatient care model for NAS.

Topics & Keywords

Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects Homelessness and Social Issues Neuroscience of respiration and sleep

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: JAMA Pediatrics

Volume 172, Issue 4, pp. 345-345

DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2017.5195

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