A study uncovered significant racial inequities in high-risk infant follow-up programs for extremely low birth weight infants, according to findings published in Pediatrics.
Co-author Yarden S. Fraiman, MD, MPH, is a member of the department of neonatology at Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center in Boston.
“My work all centers on thinking about and researching racial and ethnic inequities in neonatology,” Fraiman said. “A specific thing I think about is how are inequities that we know about in prematurity and neonatology connected to inequities over time? We started thinking