A free parking trial to increase visitation and improve extremely low birth weight infant outcomes

摘要

OBJECTIVE: Frequent parental visits are likely to benefit infants in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), particularly extremely low birth weight (ELBW; <= 1000 g) survivors. Parking costs (>= $10 per visit in our center) may deter visitation, especially for low-income parents. We assessed whether free parking (FP) decreased survivors' length of stay (LOS).