Clinical Features and Correlates of Outcomes for High-Risk, Marginalized Mothers and Newborn Infants Engaged with a Specialist Perinatal and Family Drug Health Service
Table 6
Hospital discharge and services involved.
Characteristics
Result
National data
Median length of hospital stay, days
9
3
% Length of hospital stay 1–6 days
20.9
93.3**
% Length of hospital stay 7–13 days
46.0
4.2**
% Length of hospital stay 14–20 days
15.8
1.1**
% Length of hospital stay 21–27 days
6.5
0.5**
% Length of hospital stay 28 days or more
8.6
0.8**
Hospital discharge:
% Home with mother/both parents
77.2
95.0**
% Home in kinship care
2.9
—
% Foster care
10.8
—
% With mother to residential care
2.2
—
% Transferred to another hospital
2.2
3.8
Neonatal death
2.2
2.6†
% Child at risk notification post delivery/discharge
38.1
—
% Assumed into care who had sibling/s in care
68.4
—
% Assumed into care with no previous sibling
26.3
—
Services involved at discharge
Drug and alcohol
77.0
—
Paediatrician
20.9
—
NAS clinic
66.2
—
Child protection
37.4
—
Early childhood
55.4
—
Neonatal early D/C program
18.0
—
Social work
31.7
—
Perinatal and family drug health
12.2
—
Mental health
8.6
—
*
value < 0.05; ** value < 0.001. †NSW comparative data used.
