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Semin Perinatol. 2021 Jun;45(4):151409. doi: 10.1016/j.semperi.2021.151409. Epub 2021 Mar 21.

Access to risk-appropriate hospital care and disparities in neonatal outcomes in racial/ethnic groups and rural-urban populations.

Seminars in perinatology

Scott A Lorch, Jeannette Rogowski, Jochen Profit, Ciaran S Phibbs

Affiliations

  1. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Division of Neonatology, United States; Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, United States. Electronic address: [email protected].
  2. The Pennsylvania State University, United States.
  3. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatal Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, United States.
  4. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatal Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, United States; Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, United States.

PMID: 33931237 PMCID: PMC8184635 DOI: 10.1016/j.semperi.2021.151409

Abstract

Variations in infant and neonatal mortality continue to persist in the United States and in other countries based on both socio-demographic characteristics, such as race and ethnicity, and geographic location. One potential driver of these differences is variations in access to risk-appropriate delivery care. The purpose of this article is to present the importance of delivery hospitals on neonatal outcomes, discuss variation in access to these hospitals for high-risk infants and their mothers, and to provide insight into drivers for differences in access to high-quality perinatal care using the available literature. This review also illustrates the lack of information on a number of topics that are crucial to the development of evidence-based interventions to improve access to appropriate delivery hospital services and thus optimize the outcomes of high-risk mothers and their newborns.

Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of Competing Interest The authors report no proprietary or commercial interest in any product mentioned or concept discussed in this article.

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