Noting that practice varies widely across hospitals, an expert panel came to a consensus on the first quality indicators for the care of opioid-exposed infants.
Opioid-exposed infants have poorer outcomes, including longer and more complicated birth hospital stays and higher rates of hospital readmission and ED visits compared with uncomplicated newborns born at full term, one of the authors of a new article describing the project told Healio.
“Complications of opioid use disorder in pregnancy and opioid exposure in newborns are a growing public health challenge.” Jordan M.