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Neonatal services, neonatal intensive care units

Argentina

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

Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa

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

Australia

• Queensland Clinical Guidelines
  • Stabilisation for retrieval–neonatal

Australia, New Zealand

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

Bangladesh

• PLoS ONE
  • Women's multidimensional empowerment index and essential newborn care practice in Bangladesh: The mediating role of skilled antenatal care follow-ups [2023]

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 Enfermagem
  • Neonatal visits in the first week of life in primary care: low prevalence and related factors [2022]

• 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]

• 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]

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]

Denmark

• Pharmacology Research & Perspectives
  • Massive presence of off-label medicines in Danish neonatal departments: A nationwide survey using national hospital purchase data [2023]

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

• BMC Pediatrics
  • Spatial distribution and determinants of newbornsnot receiving postnatal check-up withintwodays after birth in Ethiopia: a spatial and multilevel analysis of EDHS 2016 [2022]

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • The receipt of health information on neonatal dangers signs during the immediate postpartum period and its determinants in Ethiopia: a multilevel mixed-effects logistic regression analysis of the 2016 Ethiopian demographic health survey report [2024]

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

• PLoS ONE
  • Parental satisfaction towards care given at neonatal intensive care unit in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]
  • Spatial distribution and determinants of newborn care within 2 days of postpartum period among women with at least one antenatal care visit in Ethiopia: Mixed effect multilevel analysis [2023]

• Reproductive Health
  • Knowledge and practice of essential newborn care and associated factors among women in Ethiopia: systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]

Europe

• European Society for Paediatric Research
  • The newborn delivery room of tomorrow: emerging and future technologies [2022]
  • A critical appraisal of tools for delivery room assessment of the newborn infant [2021]

• European Standards of Care for Newborn Health
  • Patient safety & hygiene practice
  • Neonatal transport
  • NICU design
  • Monitoring growth in the neonatal unit
  • Follow-up & continuing care
  • Education & training of the multidisciplinary team working in neonatology
  • Data collection & documentation
  • Care procedures

• Neonatology
  • European Training Requirements in Neonatology 2021: The ESPR, EAP, and UEMS Accredited European Syllabus for Neonatal Training [2024]

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]

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]

International

• BMJ Global Health
  • Measuring experience of and satisfaction with newborn care: a scoping review of tools and measures [2023]

• BMJ Paediatrics Open
  • Family-centred care interventions in neonatal intensive care units: a scoping review of randomised controlled trials providing a menu of interventions, outcomes and measurement methods [2024]
  • Characteristics of intervention studies on family-centred care in neonatal intensive care units: a scoping review of randomised controlled trials [2024]

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

• 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]

• 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]

• Journal of Global Health
  • Timing of first bath in term healthy newborns: A systematic review [2022]

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

• Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
  • The Influence of the Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Circuit and Components on Anticoagulation Management: The Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Anticoagulation CollaborativE Consensus Conference [2024]
  • Recommendations on Monitoring and Replacement of Antithrombin, Fibrinogen, and Von Willebrand Factor in Pediatric Patients on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: The Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Anticoagulation CollaborativE Consensus Conference [2024]
  • Prophylactic Transfusion Strategies in Children Supported by Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: The Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Anticoagulation CollaborativE Consensus Conference [2024]
  • Priorities for Clinical Research in Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Anticoagulation From the Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Anticoagulation CollaborativE Consensus Conference [2024]
  • Management of Bleeding and Thrombotic Complications During Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: The Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Anticoagulation CollaborativE Consensus Conference [2024]
  • Executive Summary: The Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Anticoagulation CollaborativE (PEACE) Consensus Conference [2024]
  • Antifibrinolytic and Adjunct Hemostatic Agents: The Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Anticoagulation CollaborativE Consensus Conference [2024]
  • Anticoagulation Monitoring and Targets: The Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Anticoagulation CollaborativE Consensus Conference [2024]
  • Anticoagulant Medications: The Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Anticoagulation CollaborativE Consensus Conference [2024]

• 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
  • Current management of surgical neonates: is it optimal or do we need to improve? A national survey of the Italian Society of Neonatology [2024]
  • 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 [2015]

• 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

• Jornal de Pediatria
  • Neonatal and pediatric extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in developing Latin American countries [2016]

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 middle income countries

• BMC Pediatrics
  • Audit identified modifiable factors in Hospital Care of Newborns in low-middle income countries: a scoping review [2022]

• Global Health: Science and Practice
  • At-Risk Newborns: Overlooked in Expansion From Essential Newborn Care to Small and Sick Newborn Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries [2023]

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

• Journal of Global Health
  • Assessing the neonatal health policy landscape in low- and middle-income countries: Findings from the 2018 WHO SRMNCAH policy survey [2023]
  • Assessment of health facility capacity to provide newborn care in Bangladesh, Haiti, Malawi, Senegal, and Tanzania [2017]

• Nursing Open
  • Interventional Strategies to Mitigate Maternal Stress and Enhance Coping Skills During Neonatal Admission Into Intensive Care Units in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review [2024]

• PLoS ONE
  • Sources for and quality of neonatal care in 45 low- and middle-income countries [2022]

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

• World Health Organization
  • Human resource strategies to improve newborn care in health facilities in low- and middle-income countries [2020]

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

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Service readiness and availability of perinatal care in public hospitals - a multi-centric baseline study in Nepal [2022]

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

Netherlands

• Indian Pediatrics
  • Implementation of Nationwide Evidence- and Consensus-Based Guidelines to Harmonize Neonatal Care in The Netherlands [2022]

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

New Zealand

• Starship
  • Genetic Studies in the Neonatal Period (cytogenic and molecular) [2024]
  • Blood sampling in NICU [2024]
  • 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]
  • Admission to Newborn Services from home [2018]

Nigeria

• Reproductive Health
  • Maternal and child factors associated with late neonatal bathing practices in Nigeria: evidence from a national survey [2023]

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]

Philippines

• WHO Western Pacific Region
  • Newborn care until the first week of life : clinical practice pocket guide [2009]

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]

• Neonatology
  • Neonatal Intensive Care Quality Level-Dependent Variations in the Survival Rate of Infants with a Birth Weight of 500 g or Less in Korea: A Nationwide Cohort Study [2023]

South-East Asia

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

Spain

• Anales de Pediatría (English Edition)
  • Importance of specialized paediatric and neonatal transport. Current situation in Spain: Towards a more equitable and universal future [2021]

• Sociedad Española de Neonatología
  • Care levels in neonatal units in Spain: an updated vision for a new reality [2023]
  • Recommendations on the skills profile and standards of the neonatal transport system in Spain [2021]

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

• BMJ Open Quality
  • Exploring variation in quality of care and clinical outcomes between neonatal units: a novel use for the UK National Neonatal Audit Programme (NNAP) [2022]

• 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]

• British Medical Ultrasound Society
  • Guidance document on ultrasound safety issues when scanning a neonate [2021]

• 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)

• European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
  • Drug utilisation in neonatal units in England and Wales: a national cohort study [2022]

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

• NHS England
  • National standards for neonatal qualified in specialty education [2024]
  • Newborn and infant physical examination: training requirements [2023]
  • Implementing the Recommendations of the Neonatal Critical Care Transformation Review [2019]

• NHSGGC Guidelines
  • Seldinger chest drain insertion and management
  • Sampling from arterial peripheral / umbilical lines : neonatal guideline
  • Peripheral arterial lines: insertion and care
  • Capilliary blood sampling
  • Arterial lines: priming & calibration using the Kids Kit ™ closed blood sampling system : neonatal guideline
  • Admission criteria: Neonatal Unit & Transitional Care

• 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
  • Standards for Levels of Neonatal Care: II, III, and IV [2023]
  • 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]

• Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses
  • Sudden Unexpected Postnatal Collapse in Healthy Term Newborns: AWHONN Practice Brief Number 8 [2020]
  • Prevention of Newborn Falls/Drops in the Hospital: AWHONN Practice Brief Number 9 [2020]

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

• National Association of Neonatal Nurses
  • NANN Neonatal Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters: Guideline for Practice, 4th ed [2024]

• National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
  • Association between Policy Changes for Oxygen Saturation Alarm Settings and Neonatal Morbidity and Mortality in Infants Born Very Preterm [2019]

• National Perinatal Association
  • Interdisciplinary Guidelines and Recommendations for NICU Discharge Preparation and Transition Planning [2022]

• Pediatrics
  • Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Neonatal Intensive Care: A Systematic Review [2019]

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

• Seminars in Fetal & Neonatal Medicine
  • Telemedicine across the continuum of neonatal-perinatal care [2022]

• 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]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Standards for improving the quality of care for small and sick newborns in health facilities [2020]
  • Caring for the newborn at home [2015]
  • Home visits for the newborn child : a strategy to improve survival : WHO/UNICEF joint statement [2009]

WHO South-East Asia Region

• WHO South-East Asia Region
  • Strategic Framework for improving newborn and child health in the South-East Asia Region (2024-2030) [2024]

WHO Western Pacific Region

• 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]

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