Evaluation of State-Mandated Reporting of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome --- Six States, 2013--2017

Published on January 10, 2019

In 2014 in the United States, an infant with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) was born every 15 minutes. Historically, NAS surveillance has depended on hospital discharge data, frequently with a time lag, limiting ability to rapidly direct public health resources.

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