Luca Cegolon, Oona Campbell, Salvatore Alberico, Marcella Montico, Giuseppe Mastrangelo, Lorenzo Monasta, Luca Ronfani, Fabio Barbone
BACKGROUND: Lengths of hospital stay (LoS) after childbirth that are too long have a number of health, social and economic drawbacks. For this reason, in several high-income countries LoS has been reduced over the past decades and early discharge (ED) is increasingly applied to low-risk mothers and newborns. METHODS: We conducted a population-based study investigating LoS after chilbirth across all 12 maternity centres of Friuli Venezia-Giulia (FVG), North-Eastern Italy, using a database capturing all registered births in the region from 2005 to 2015 (11 years)...
2019: PloS One