Outcomes and costs of surgical treatments of necrotizing enterocolitis

A Stey, ES Barnert, CH Tseng, E Keeler… - …, 2015 - publications.aap.org
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Despite previous studies demonstrating no difference
in mortality or morbidity, the various surgical approaches for necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC)
in infants have not been evaluated economically. Our goal was to compare total in-hospital
cost and mortality by using propensity score–matched infants treated with peritoneal
drainage alone, peritoneal drainage followed by laparotomy, or laparotomy alone for
surgical NEC. METHODS: Utilizing the California OSHPD Linked Birth File Dataset, 1375 …