Most Very Preterm Infants Require Hospital Readmission Before Age 2 — Neonatal Morbidities Strongly Increase Days Spent in Hospital

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• In a nationwide cohort of 39,413 infants born at 22–31 weeks’ gestation and discharged home, 67% had at least one hospitalization before age 2.

• Hospitalization frequency and total days hospitalized rose with decreasing gestational age (58.8% at 31 weeks to 87.0% at <24 weeks) and with the presence and number of neonatal morbidities.

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