Determinants of newborn health and health care trajectories in the first year of life

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Award ID
R01HD101523
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Awarding agency
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$5,766,527

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Originally
Funding
  • $5,140,315.99 Federal
  • $626,211.00 Non-federal
Place of performance
Lebanon, NH 03756, USA

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Description

Abstract
Newborn health has improved in the united states in recent decades yet still lags that of other high-income countries. A critically important yet understudied reason for this disappointing GAP is the nature of the inpatient care received by newborns and the effects this has on health during the first year of life. Neonatal care and outcomes have been shown to vary markedly from hospital to hospital and between neonatal intensive care units (nicus), yet little is known about the causes and consequences of this variation, particularly for lower-risk (e.g., less premature) newborns, who occupy most nicu beds today; few studies have examined how widely differing patterns of care are linked to post-discharge outcomes. Our long-term goal is to extend our previous descriptive studies of newborn-care variation to investigate and identify the temporal sequence of risk, medical care, and outcomes through the first year of life. We will do so using a population-based cohort of 1.13 million medicaid-insured texas newborns (54% of texas births, 1 in 18 of US births). This unique dataset, developed by members of our team, links maternal and newborn medicaid claims/encounters to natality and mortality records. Our central hypothesis is that newborn care, and subsequent infant health outcomes, are strongly associated with specific, modifiable aspects of newborn and post-discharge care. We will study five gestational age singleton cohorts: (1) very preterm, (2) moderately preterm, (3) early preterm, (4) early term, and (5) term. In aim 1, we will investigate the association of neonatal hospital care with hospital characteristics. We will then test the association of these care patterns with mortality and morbidity (severe conditions, readmissions, and ER use) during the inpatient period plus 7 days post-discharge. In aim 2, the observation period is extended to one-year post-discharge, with additional outcomes such as infant diagnoses derived from claims and multiple weight measurements obtained from the women, infants, and children nutritional program. We will test associations of these risk-adjusted outcomes with birth-hospital characteristics, neonatal care, and post- neonatal care. In aim 3, we investigate the possible amplifying effects of hospital-level maternal race and ethnicity composition on the foregoing analyses. This project will significantly advance our knowledge of newborn care and outcomes for a large, diverse total birth cohort through the first year of life, providing detailed information about determinants of early health. The findings will create actionable opportunities to improve perinatal care delivery through policy development and new clinical improvement initiatives.

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Subawards

Subrecipient Amount Awarded
University Of Texas Health Science Center At Houston As referenced in the proposal. $210,596
Institute For Clinical Evaluative Sciences $0
Institute For Clinical Evaluative Sciences $25,463
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic $46,767
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic $0
University Of Texas Health Science Center At Houston $0
Institute For Clinical Evaluative Sciences $0

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Who received award R01HD101523?

R01HD101523 was awarded to Trustees Of Dartmouth College by National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (National Institutes of Health) on June 14, 2021.

How much is award R01HD101523 worth?

$5,766,527 has been obligated on R01HD101523: $5,140,316 in federal funding and $626,211 in non-federal funding.

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