Js. Rawlings et al., EXPECTED DURATION OF HOSPITAL STAY OF LOW-BIRTH-WEIGHT INFANTS - GRAPHIC DEPICTION IN RELATION TO BIRTH-WEIGHT AND GESTATIONAL-AGE, The Journal of pediatrics, 123(2), 1993, pp. 307-309
Neonatal duration of hospital stay correlated with both birth weight a
nd gestational age in positively skewed, nonlinear relationships. With
in increments of birth weight, gestational age had a semiindependent i
nfluence on length of stay. Log length of stay correlated with both bi
rth weight and gestational age in linear, normally distributed relatio
nships. A nomogram is provided for predicting individual lengths of st
ay.