caa a22 4500 47578443X CHVBK 20180406123654.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/PL00008406 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/PL00008406 Hospital stay and short-term follow-up of children of drug-abusing mothers born in an urban community hospital - a retrospective review [Elektronische Daten] [Antoine Payot, Michel Berner] In order to assess the current use of medical and social services of children of drug-abusing mothers in regard to their short term outcome in a Swiss urban community hospital, we compared hospital, private paediatricians and home nursing records of 37 of these children with 37 matched control children from birth to 18 months of age. Children of drug-abusing mothers (CDAM) experienced a longer neonatal hospital stay than control children with a median (25%-75%) of 26 days (10.5-52.5 days) versus 5 (5-6) days (P < 0.001), a substantial part of which, 8 days (3.5-26 days) versus 0 days (0-1 day) (P < 0.001) was not motivated by any specific medical treatment or nursing care. Before discharge, CDAM were referred to out of hospital nursing and social services for further management, but only 13% were effectively followed. More than 50% were lost to follow-up by their initial paediatrician after 1 year of life. Conclusion New ways to ensure better co-ordination between paediatricians and the social services (inside and outside the hospital) should be developed to shorten the neonatal hospitalisation period and improve the quality of follow-up. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2000 Key words Child of drug-abusing mother nationallicence Medical follow-up nationallicence Social follow-up nationallicence Neonatal hospitalisation nationallicence Payot Antoine Department of Paediatrics, Hôpital des Enfants, 6, rue Willy Donzé, 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland e-mail: antoine.payot@hcuge.ch Tel.: +41-22-3824595; Fax: +41-22-3824675, CH aut Berner Michel Department of Paediatrics, Hôpital des Enfants, 6, rue Willy Donzé, 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland e-mail: antoine.payot@hcuge.ch Tel.: +41-22-3824595; Fax: +41-22-3824675, CH aut https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00008406 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00008406 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Payot Antoine Department of Paediatrics, Hôpital des Enfants, 6, rue Willy Donzé, 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland e-mail: antoine.payot@hcuge.ch Tel.: +41-22-3824595; Fax: +41-22-3824675, CH aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Berner Michel Department of Paediatrics, Hôpital des Enfants, 6, rue Willy Donzé, 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland e-mail: antoine.payot@hcuge.ch Tel.: +41-22-3824595; Fax: +41-22-3824675, CH aut Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer