Background: The neonate's birth and subsequent hospitalization cause families to experience various needs. Identifying the family's needs can lead provision of qualitative services implementation family-centered development care (FCDC) by nurses. Objectives: This study aimed assess Iranian with neonates in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs). Methods: cross-sectional was conducted northern Ir...

OBJECTIVES To learn about the profile of fungal colonization and related risk factors in premature newborns. METHODS Prospective cohort, from 04/01/2010 to 04/31/2011, with 44 patients admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit, born at the hospital maternity, weighing less than 1,500 g. On admission, data were collected on pre-natal care and childbirth. Clinical and laboratory information,...

OBJECTIVE To quantify the relationship between recurrent wheezing (RW) in the third year of life and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection, prematurity, and neonatal oxygen exposure. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study linking inpatient, outpatient, and laboratory databases for cohort assembly and logistic regression analysis. SETTING Integrated health care delivery system in Northern C...

Case presentation: This is a five-year-old boy, admitted with global development delay associated limb deformities. He was born prematurely at 35 weeks, by cesarean delivery due to pelvic presentation. During pregnancy, the mother noticed reduced fetal movements, and birth, neonatal resuscitation hospitalization required. congenital arthrogryposis (CA), thumbs in bilateral adduction, restricted...

QUALITY PROBLEM OR ISSUE Incorrect and excessive diagnosis of newborn infections in Nicaragua caused overcrowding in the neonatal intensive care units and unnecessary hospitalization. INITIAL ASSESSMENT A baseline study in nine hospitals found that none correctly utilized disinfectants, sterilization or hand hygiene and that diagnosis of neonatal sepsis was based primarily on clinical manifes...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the duration of faecal carriage of CTX-M-15-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in infants colonized during a nosocomial neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) outbreak after discharge from hospital, possible risk factors for long-term colonization and transmission to household contacts (HCs). METHODS Fifty-one infants colonized with two unrelated clones of CTX-M-15 K. pneu...

INTRODUCTION In recent years, admission of critical newborn infants (NBIs) to the neonatal intensive care unit of Hospital Garrahan (HG) has been limited due to the hospitalization of infants younger than 30 days old through spontaneous demand for services. This is probably a multifactorial situation, and one of its causes is a lack of regionalization, which results in an inadequate use of reso...

RATIONALE Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is associated with a high incidence of respiratory problems, even after initial hospital discharge. These problems are likely to lead to re-hospitalization during infancy, although actual frequency of readmissions is unknown. OBJECTIVE We aimed to determine the rate of hospitalization for wheezing in infants with CDH between the time of initial ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between socioeconomic factors, maternal characteristics, breastfeeding, and hospitalization for bronchiolitis in the post-neonatal period. METHODS A nested case-control study with a cohort of 5,304 children born in the city of Pelotas, Brazil, was conducted. The cohort study consisted of four sub-studies with their own methods and logistics. Mothers w...

INTRODUCTION Healthcare quality is usually evaluated through analysing medical outcomes including neonatal readmission and patient and family satisfaction. Parental involvement in neonatal care is considered as one of the most important factors, which directly affects these outcomes. The aim of the present study was to determine the effect of family-centered care including maternal participatio...