| | SCNSY or PEDSa | NSYb |
|---|
Opioids** | 107 (54) | 33 (19) |
Cocaine | 7 (1) | 10 (4) |
Cannabis** | 74 (46) | 171 (153) |
Barbiturates | 0 (0) | 3 (2) |
Benzodiazepines* | 10 (2) | 1 (1) |
Amphetamines* | 48 (11) | 25 (10) |
Methadone** | 34 (19) | 7 (4) |
- According to chi-square tests for equality of proportions, the proportion of newborns in SCNSY/PEDS placement was higher than that in the NSY placement among the opioid-exposed newborns (χ2 = 68.86, df = 1, p < 0.001), benzodiazepine-exposed newborns (χ2 = 6.84, df = 1, p < 0.01), amphetamine-exposed newborns (χ2 = 10.95, df = 1, p < 0.001), methadone-exposed newborns (χ2 = 21.33, df = 1, p < 0.001), lower among the cannabis-exposed newborns in (χ2 = 69.07, df = 1, p < 0.001), and did not differ significantly among the cocaine-exposed newborns (χ2 = 0.08, df = 1, p = 0.78). The number of barbiturate-positive tests was too small to allow evaluation
- Abbreviations: SCNSY Special care nursery – high level acuity and intervention, PEDS Pediatric – moderate acuity and intervention, NSY Normal newborn nursery – low level acuity and intervention. The number of those exposed to a single particular drug is shown in parentheses
- * and ** indicate statistically significant differences between the proportions of SCNSY/PEDS and NSY newborns exposed to specific drugs with p < 0.01 (*) and p < 0.001 (**), respectively, as described above
- a 66 newborns placed in SCNSY or PEDS were exposed to multiple drugs
- b 27 newborns placed in NSY were exposed to multiple drugs
