A Prospective Study of Parent Health-Related Quality of Life before and after Discharge from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

To determine how infant illness and parent demographics are associated with parent health-related quality of life (HRQL) during and 3  months after hospitalization in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). We hypothesized that parents of extremely preterm infants would report lower NICU HRQL than other parents, and that all parents would report improved HRQL after discharge.
Source: The Journal of Pediatrics - Category: Pediatrics Authors: Tags: Original Article Source Type: research