Joseph H. Carpenter

TL;DR: Major changes in both obstetric and neonatal care during the 1990s were associated with decreases in mortality and morbidity for VLBW infants during the first half of the decade, but since 1995, no additional improvements in mortality or morbidity have been seen, ending a decades-long trend of improving outcomes for these infants.

TL;DR: Mortality and major neonatal morbidity in survivors decreased for infants with birth weight 501 to 1500 g between 2000 and 2009, however, at the end of the decade, a high proportion of these infants still either died or survived after experiencing ≥1 major neonnatal morbidity known to be associated with both short- and long-term adverse consequences.

TL;DR: It is concluded that multidisciplinary collaborative quality improvement has the potential to improve the outcomes of neonatal intensive care.

TL;DR: NBIs are associated with increased hospital treatment costs and LOS but by varying amounts depending on the BW, and preventing a single NBI could reduce the treatment costs of a VLBW infant by at least several thousand dollars.

TL;DR: Students exposed to the media-plus-school interventions were found to be at lower risk for weekly smoking than those receiving school interventions only, indicating that the effects of the combined interventions persisted 2 years after the interventions' completion.