Journal of Korean medical science
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J. Korean Med. Sci. · Apr 2021
Mortality and Morbidities according to Time of Birth in Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants.
Although the overall quality of high-risk neonatal care has improved recently, there is still concern about a difference in the quality of care when comparing off-hour births and regular-hour births. Moreover, there are no data in Korea regarding the impact of time of birth on mortality and morbidities in preterm infants. ⋯ Efforts to improve the overall quality of NICU are required to lower the early mortality rate in off-hour births. Also, other sensitive indexes for the evaluation of quality of NICU care should be further studied.