Pediatric Hospital Readmissions for Infants With Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome, 2016–2019

Neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS) is associated with long and costly birth hospitalization and increased readmission risk. Our objective was to examine readmissions in the first year of life for infants diagnosed with NOWS compared with infants without NOWS, adjusting for sociodemographic and clinical factors, and to describe use during readmissions in this population.Using data from the Pediatric Health Information System, we...