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Aim: Advances in perinatal and neonatal care have allowed more premature or high-risk infants to live. Particularly, premature infants occupy most of the beds in neonatal units with long length of hospital stay (LOS) and high rehospitalization requirements. The aim of this study was to investigate the survival rates, LOS, and rehospitalization rates of the patients according to gestation age and birth weight, and to determine the number of bed-days and the utilization of bedscape in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).Material and method: Hospital records of 544 infants and 30 rehospitalized infants who admitted to NICU between January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2008 were reviewed retrospectively.Results: In one-year period, the mean LOS was 9.3 days, the overall survival rate was 96.5% and the rehospitalization rate was 2.9%. Mean LOS, survival and rehospitalization rates are inversely related to gestation age and birth weight (r=-1, p<0,01). The most common rehospitalization causes were laser photocoagulation for retinopathy and sepsis in preterm infants, and hyperbilirubinemia in term infants.Conclusion: With evidence based scientific, preventive and right applications, the short- and long-term morbidities that may develop at intensive care process and later can be treated and increase in survival rates can be achieved. The rehospitalization of infants after discharge contributes to the high cost of intensive care and should create new morbidities. This requires right organization of NICU beds and outpatient follow-up

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