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Neonatal services, neonatal intensive care units

 

Africa, Asia

• BMC Public Health
  • A systematic review of community-to-facility neonatal referral completion rates in Africa and Asia [2015]

Argentina

• Archivos argentinos de pediatría
  • Neonatal intensive care unit lighting: update and recommendations [2016]

Australia

• Queensland Clinical Guidelines
  • Neonatal stabilisation for retrieval

Australia, New Zealand

• BMC Pediatrics
  • Neonatal extravasation injury: prevention and management in Australia and New Zealand-a survey of current practice [2013]

Brazil

• BMJ Open
  • Health facility structure and maternal characteristics related to essential newborn care in Brazil: a cross-sectional study [2018]

• Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
  • Neonatal bed status in Brazilian maternity hospitals: an exploratory analysis [2021]
  • Care for healthy newborns in Brazil: are we making progress in achieving best practices? [2021]

• Revista Brasileira de Terapia Intensiva
  • First Brazilian recommendation on physiotherapy with sensory motor stimulation in newborns and infants in the intensive care unit [2021]

Cambodia

• Healthcare
  • Newborn Care in the Home and Health Facility: Formative Findings for Intervention Research in Cambodia [2016]

Canada

• Canadian Paediatric Society
  • Facilitating discharge from hospital of the healthy term infant [2018]
  • The interfacility transport of critically ill newborns [2015]

• Paediatrics & Child Health
  • The Evidence-based Practice for Improving Quality method has greater impact on improvement of outcomes than dissemination of practice change guidelines and quality improvement training in neonatal intensive care units [2015]

• Perinatal Services BC
  • Provincial Maternal Newborn Transfer Network: Principles and Processes [2014]

China

• Lancet Regional Health: Western Pacific
  • A Cross-Sectional Nationwide Study on Accessibility and Availability of Neonatal care Resources in Hospitals of China: Current Situation, Mortality and Regional Differences [2021]

• Neonatology
  • Development of neonatal respiratory and intensive care: Chinese perspectives [2012]

China, Vietnam

• BMC Health Services Research
  • Using guidelines to improve neonatal health in China and Vietnam: a qualitative study [2016]

Egypt

• Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
  • Egyptian Neonatal Safety Training Network: a dream to improve patient safety culture in Egyptian neonatal intensive care units [2020]

Ethiopia

• Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences
  • Readiness of Primary Hospitals in Providing Neonatal Intensive Care Services in Ethiopia [2021]

Germany

• BMJ Open
  • What matters most and for whom? A cross-sectional study exploring goals of health professionals in German neonatal intensive care units [2021]

High and middle income countries

• EClinicalMedicine
  • Prevalence of anxiety and post-traumatic stress (PTS) among the parents of babies admitted to neonatal units: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]

India

• International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being
  • Sustaining a “culture of silence” in the neonatal intensive care unit during nonemergency situations: A grounded theory on ensuring adherence to behavioral modification to reduce noise levels [2014]

• Journal of Perinatology
  • Newborn healthcare in urban India [2016]
  • Inpatient care of small and sick newborns in healthcare facilities [2016]
  • Innovating affordable neonatal care equipment for use at scale [2016]
  • Care of newborn in the community and at home [2016]

• Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
  • Operational guidelines on Family Participatory Care for Improving Newborn Health  [2017]

International

• Drug Safety
  • Prevalence and Nature of Medication Errors and Preventable Adverse Drug Events in Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Settings: A Systematic Review [2019]

• Enhanced Recovery After Surgery
  • Consensus Guidelines for Perioperative Care in Neonatal Intestinal Surgery: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS®) Society Recommendations [2020]

• European Heart Journal Cardiovascular Imaging
  • Targeted Neonatal Echocardiography in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Practice Guidelines and Recommendations for Training [2011]

• European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care
  • International evidence-based guidelines on Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) for critically ill neonates and children issued by the POCUS Working Group of the European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC) [2020]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Review of Drug Utilization Studies in Neonatal Units: A Global Perspective [2020]

• Maternal Health, Neonatology and Perinatology
  • Evidence-based design for neonatal units: a systematic review [2019]

• Pediatrics and Neonatology
  • Patient X-ray exposure and ALARA in the neonatal intensive care unit: Global patterns [2021]

Iran

• Global Journal of Health Science
  • The Effect of Education and Implementation of Evidence-Based Nursing Guidelines on Infants’ Weight Gaining in NICU [2014]

Ireland

• Ireland's Health Services
  • Model of Care for Neonatal Services in Ireland [2015]

Italy

• Italian Journal of Pediatrics
  • Italian inter-society expert panel position on radiological exposure in Neonatal Intensive Care Units [2020]

• Società Italiana di Neonatologia
  • Use of intravenous sodium bicarbonate in neonatal intensive care units in Italy: a nationwide survey [2021]
  • Management of oxygen saturation monitoring in preterm newborns in the NICU: the Italian picture [2021]
  • Furosemide use in Italian neonatal intensive care units: a national survey [2020]
  • Rethinking the neonatal transport ground ambulance [2019]
  • Neonatologist performed echocardiography (NPE) in Italian neonatal intensive care units: a national survey [2019]
  • Nationwide survey of neonatal transportation practices in Italy [2019]

Japan

• Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences
  • Potentially harmful excipients in neonatal medications: a multicenter nationwide observational study in Japan [2021]

Kenya

• Archives of Disease in Childhood
  • Assessment of neonatal care in clinical training facilities in Kenya [2014]

• BMJ Global Health
  • Developing recommendations for neonatal inpatient care service categories: reflections from the research, policy and practice interface in Kenya [2019]
  • Expectations for nursing care in newborn units in Kenya: moving from implicit to explicit standards [2018]

Latin America and the Caribbean

• Pan American Health Organization
  • Evidence-based Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Follow-Up of At-Risk Neonates. Abriged version [2021]

Low and low middle income countries

• Health Policy and Planning
  • Evaluating implementation strategies for essential newborn care interventions in low- and low middle-income countries: a systematic review [2020]

Low and middle income countries

• Journal of Global Health
  • Assessment of health facility capacity to provide newborn care in Bangladesh, Haiti, Malawi, Senegal, and Tanzania [2017]

• PLoS Medicine
  • Care Seeking for Neonatal Illness in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review [2012]

• Tropical Medicine & International Health
  • Innovative newborn health technology for resource-limited environments [2013]

Low-income countries

• BMJ Open
  • Parent and family perspectives on home-based newborn care practices in lower-income countries: a systematic review of qualitative studies [2019]

Malawi

• PLoS ONE
  • Distance to available services for newborns at facilities in Malawi: A secondary analysis of survey and health facility data [2021]

Nepal

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • Newborn Health Interventions and Challenges for Implementation in Nepal [2016]

Netherlands

• Neonatology
  • Development of Best Evidence Dosing Recommendations for Term and Preterm Neonates (NeoDose Project) [2023]

New Zealand

• Ministry of Health New Zealand
  • Review of neonatal care in New Zealand [2020]
  • Newborn Pre-Enrolment Toolkit [2012]

• Starship
  • Umbilical artery and vein catheterisation in the neonate [2022]
  • Intravenous Cannulation in neonates [2021]
  • EPIC: Extended Dwell Peripheral Intravenous Catheter [2021]
  • Central Line Care - bundle of care for the neonate [2021]
  • Central Line Care - PICC insertion in the neonate [2019]
  • Blood sampling in NICU [2019]
  • Cytogenic and Molecular Genetic Studies in the Neonatal Period [2018]
  • Admission to Newborn Services from home [2018]

Pakistan

• Global Health Action
  • Factors associated with non-utilization of postnatal care among newborns in the first 2 days after birth in Pakistan: a nationwide cross-sectional study [2021]

Palestine

• Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare
  • Improving Newborn Health in Countries Exposed to Political Violence: An Assessment of the Availability, Accessibility, and Distribution of Neonatal Health Services at Palestinian Hospitals [2020]

Papua New Guinea

• Paediatrics and International Child Health
  • Improving paediatric and neonatal care in rural district hospitals in the highlands of Papua New Guinea: a quality improvement approach [2014]

Republic of Korea

• Healthcare
  • Developing Nursing Standard Guidelines for Nurses in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Delphi Study [2020]

• Journal of Korean Medical Science
  • The Korean Neonatal Network: An Overview [2015]

South-East Asia

• BMC Pediatrics
  • Newborn care in Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic and the Philippines: a comprehensive needs assessment [2014]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• BMJ Open
  • Cross-sectional observational assessment of quality of newborn care immediately after birth in health facilities across six sub-Saharan African countries [2017]

• Tropical Medicine & International Health
  • Newborn care behaviours and neonatal survival: evidence from sub-Saharan Africa [2013]

Switzerland

• BMC Pediatrics
  • The swiss neonatal quality cycle, a monitor for clinical performance and tool for quality improvement [2013]

• Swiss Medical Weekly
  • NeoCheck: a prescription-screening tool to optimise pharmacotherapy for hospitalised neonates [2021]

Turkey

• Turkish Archives of Pediatrics
  • Turkish Neonatal Society guideline on the safe transport of newborn [2018]
  • Turkish Neonatal Society guideline for the follow-up of high-risk newborn infants [2018]
  • Turkish Neonatal Society Guideline on fluid and electrolyte balance in the newborn [2018]

United Kingdom

• British Association of Perinatal Medicine
  • Framework: NEWTT 2 - Deterioration of the Newborn [2023]
  • Sudden and Unexpected Postnatal Collapse [2022]
  • Service and Quality Standards for Provision of Neonatal Care in the UK [2022]
  • Optimal Arrangements for Neonatal Intensive Care Units in the UK (2021) [2021]
  • Family Integrated Care [2021]
  • The Prevention, Assessment and Management of in-Hospital Newborn Falls and Drops [2020]
  • Enhancing Shared Decision Making in Neonatal Care [2019]
  • Calculating Unit Cot numbers and Nurse Staffing Establishment and Determining Cot Capacity [2019]
  • Use of Central Venous Catheters in Neonates (Revised 2018) [2018]
  • Optimal arrangements for Local Neonatal Units and Special Care Units in the UK (2018) [2018]
  • Neonatal Transitional Care - A Framework for Practice (2017) [2017]
  • Neonatal Service Quality Indicators: Standards relating to structures and processes (2017) [2017]
  • Newborn Early Warning Trigger & Track (NEWTT) - a Framework for Practice (2015) [2015]

• Care Quality Commission
  • Identifying and managing clinical risks in newborn babies and providing care for infants in the community who need respiratory support [2016]

• Department of Health and Social Care
  • Neonatal units: planning and design (HBN 09-03)

• GG&C Paediatric Guidelines
  • Seldinger chest drain insertion and management
  • Sampling from arterial peripheral / umbilical lines : neonatal guideline
  • Peripherally inserted central catheters (PICC Lines) - Neonatology guideline
  • Peripheral arterial lines: insertion and care
  • Oesophageal atresia and tracheo-oesophageal fistula
  • Capilliary blood sampling
  • Bowel irrigation guidance : neonates
  • Arterial lines: priming & calibration using the Kids Kit ™ closed blood sampling system : neonatal guideline
  • Admission criteria: Neonatal Unit & Transitional Care
  • Acute neonatal referral pathways

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Specialist neonatal care quality standard [2010]

• NHS England
  • Implementing the Recommendations of the Neonatal Critical Care Transformation Review [2019]

• NIHR Journals Library
  • Right cot, right place, right time: improving the design and organisation of neonatal care networks – a computer simulation study [2015]

• Pediatric Drugs
  • A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Medication Safety Incidents Reported in Neonatal and Children’s Intensive Care [2021]

• Scottish Government
  • Neonatal care in Scotland: a quality framework [2013]

United States

• AIMS Public Health
  • An integrative review: maternal engagement in the neonatal intensive care unit and health outcomes for U.S.-born preterm infants and their parents [2019]

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Use of Point-of-Care Ultrasonography in the NICU for Diagnostic and Procedural Purposes [2022]
  • Transition to a Safe Home Sleep Environment for the NICU Patient [2021]
  • Neonatal Provider Workforce [2019]
  • Disaster Preparedness in Neonatal Intensive Care Units [2017]
  • Levels of Neonatal Care [2015]

• Journal of Perinatology
  • Designation of neonatal levels of care: a review of state regulatory and monitoring policies [2020]

• Pediatrics
  • Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Neonatal Intensive Care: A Systematic Review [2019]
  • Pediatric and Neonatal Interfacility Transport: Results From a National Consensus Conference [2013]

• Scientific Reports
  • Trends in neonatal intensive care unit admissions by race/ethnicity in the United States, 2008–2018 [2021]

• Society of Critical Care Medicine
  • Guidelines for Family-Centered Care in the Neonatal, Pediatric, and Adult ICU [2017]

West Africa

• Lancet Global Health
  • The first 2 h after birth: prevalence and factors associated with neonatal care practices from a multicountry, facility-based, observational study [2021]

Western Pacific

• WHO Western Pacific Region
  • Third biennial progress report: 2018-2020 (Action Plan for Health Newborn Infants in the Western Pacific Region: 2014-2020) [2022]
  • Early essential newborn care: clinical practice pocket guide, 2nd edition [2022]
  • Second biennial progress report : 2016-2017 (Action Plan for Health Newborn Infants in the Western Pacific Region : 2014-2020) [2018]
  • Second Biennial Meeting on Accelerating Progress in Early Essential Newborn Care, Da Nang, Viet Nam, 14-17 August 2017 : meeting report [2017]
  • Second Biennial Meeting of the Independent Review Group on Validation of Early Essential Newborn Care Progress, Manila, Philippines, 27-29 June 2017 : meeting report [2017]
  • Early essential newborn care (EENC) country profiles - 2017 [2017]
  • Coaching for the first embrace : facilitator's guide [2016]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Standards for improving the quality of care for small and sick newborns in health facilities [2020]

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