Recent work has raised questions about the uniformity of criteria for admission to a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and possible overuse of this resource. In this large study in California, 10% of infants born at 34 or more weeks were admitted to a NICU, accounting for 79% of all NICU admissions. Admission rates varied 34-fold across NICUs and there was a 40-fold variation in the reported percentage of high illness acuity. The accompanying Editorial by Goodman and Little discusses the implications of this variation and the need for appropriate population-based data to track variations in care.

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最近的工作提出了关于新生儿重症监护病房（NICU）入院标准的统一性以及对该资源可能过度使用的质疑。在加利福尼亚州进行的这项大型研究中，出生于34周或34周以上的婴儿中有10％被新生儿重症监护病房（NICU）收治，占所有新生儿重症监护病房（NICU）收治的79％。在新生儿重症监护病房中，入院率变化34倍，而报告的高病敏度百分比变化了40倍。古德曼和利特尔（Goodman and Little）随附的社论讨论了这种差异的含义，以及需要使用适当的基于人群的数据来追踪护理的差异。