A Free Parking Trial to Increase Visitation and Improve Extremely Low Birth Weight Infant Outcomes

摘要

ObjectiveFrequent parental visits are likely to benefit infants in a neonatal ICU (>NICU), particularly extremely low birth weight (>ELBW; ≤1000g) survivors. Parking costs (≥$10/visit in our center) may deter visitation, especially for low-income parents. We assessed whether free parking (>FP) decreased survivors’ length-of-stay (>LOS).