Evaluation of advanced neonatal nurse practitioners: confidential enquiry into the management of sentinel cases.

A confidential enquiry into cases of neonatal encephalopathy.

OBJECTIVES To assess the quality of care and timing of possible asphyxial events for infants with neonatal encephalopathy; to compare the quality of care findings with those relating to the deaths from the Confidential Enquiry into Stillbirths and Deaths in Infancy (CESDI); and to assess whether the confidential enquiry method is a useful clinical governance tool for investigating morbidity. ...

Quality of care by neonatal nurse practitioners: a review of the Ashington experiment.

The Ashington experiment, an innovative neonatal service run entirely by advanced neonatal nurse practitioners (ANNPs), has been evaluated. This is a report of that evaluation and a review of the benefits, hazards, and implications of nurse practitioner led services.

A district confidential enquiry into deaths due to asthma.

BACKGROUND The aim was to establish a continuing district based confidential enquiry into deaths from asthma. METHODS A confidential enquiry was conducted in an English health district. Subjects comprised 24 residents of the Norwich health district aged between 16 and 65 years who had died between 1988 and 1991 with asthma as the principal cause of death. RESULTS Twenty one of the patients ...

Child deaths: confidential enquiry into the role and quality of UK primary care.

BACKGROUND In 2006 the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Perinatal Deaths was extended to pilot a collection of child deaths. This helped optimise data collection for local safeguarding children's boards, which, since April 2008, have a statutory responsibility to review all child deaths. Reviewing primary care records may highlight areas in which systems, skills, and care could be improve...

Maternal health in pregnancy: messages from the 2014 UK Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Death.