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Premature infants, low birth weight

Canada

• Canadian Paediatric Society
  • Safe discharge of the late preterm infant [2010]

International

• Cochrane Library
  • Transfer of preterm infants from incubator to open cot at lower versus higher body weight
  • Servo-control for maintaining abdominal skin temperature at 36C in low birth weight infants
  • Replacement of estrogens and progestins to prevent morbidity and mortality in preterm infants
  • Massage for promoting growth and development of preterm and/or low birth-weight infants
  • Interventions to prevent hypothermia at birth in preterm and/or low birthweight babies
  • Interventions for treatment of neonatal hyperglycemia in very low birth weight infants
  • Interventions for prevention of neonatal hyperglycemia in very low birth weight infants
  • Interventions for non-oliguric hyperkalaemia in preterm neonates
  • Early volume expansion versus inotrope for prevention of morbidity and mortality in very preterm infants
  • Early volume expansion for prevention of morbidity and mortality in very preterm infants
  • Developmental care for promoting development and preventing morbidity in preterm infants
  • Cycled light in the intensive care unit for preterm and low birth weight infants
  • Cot-nursing versus incubator care for preterm infants
  • Base administration or fluid bolus for preventing morbidity and mortality in preterm infants with metabolic acidosis
  • Albumin infusion for low serum albumin in preterm newborn infants

• United Nations Children's Fund - UNICEF
  • Low Birthweight: Country, Regional and Global Estimates [2004]

New Zealand

• Auckland District Health Board
  • Prevention of Hypothermia in Infants <30 weeks Gestation [2005]

United States of America

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • Criteria for Determining Disability in Infants and Children: Low Birth Weight [2003]

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Safe Transportation of Preterm and Low Birth Weight Infants at Hospital Discharge [2009]
  • "Late-Preterm" Infants: A Population at Risk [2007]

• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  • Assessment and care of the late preterm infant. Evidence-based clinical practice guideline. Association of Women's Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses [2010]

• RAND
  • Is Patient Volume a Useful Quality Measure for Very Low Birthweight Infants? [2004]

Articles in journals

• Advances in Neonatal Care
  • Exposure to Maternal Voice in Preterm Infants: A Review [2010]

• American Family Physician
  • Outpatient Care of the Premature Infant [2007]

• BMC Pediatrics
  • A new growth chart for preterm babies: Babson and Benda's chart updated with recent data and a new format [2003]

• British Medical Journal
  • Supporting parents in the neonatal unit [2004]

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Monitoring Low Birth Weight: An Evaluation of International Estimates and an Updated Estimation Procedure [2005]

• Chinese Medical Journal
  • Improving fetal to neonatal transition of the very preterm infant: novel approaches [2010]

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