Author/Authors :
Al-Qahtani, D.A. King Khalid Military City - Northern Area Armed Forces Hospital - Department of Primary Care, Saudi Arabia , Imtiaz, M.L. King Khalid Military City - Northern Area Armed Forces Hospital - Department of Primary Care, Saudi Arabia , Al-Dusari, S.N. King Khalid Military City - Northern Area Armed Forces Hospital - Hospital Management, Saudi Arabia , Mustafa, A.P. King Khalid Military City - Northern Area Armed Forces Hospital - Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Saudi Arabia , Rafael, R. King Khalid Military City - Northern Area Armed Forces Hospital - Department of Paediatrics, Saudi Arabia
Abstract :
A retrospective hospital-based cross-sectional survey in a Saudi Arabian hospital compared the frequency of visits to hospital of low-birth-weight and normal-birth-weight infants and of preterm and full-term infants during the first year of life. A multivariate analysis of the visits for health care with birth weight, term, Apgar score, mode of delivery and sex was made for 1892 infants. The number of visits for health care was significantly higher for low-birth-weight and preterm infants. While the mode of delivery had no effect on the frequency of visits, male sex and poor Apgar score 5 minutes after birth were associated with greater frequency of visits to specialty clinics and higher rates of hospitalizatio
