OBJECTIVES Bibliographic review on occupational stress and burnout presence in physicians and nurses that work in pediatric and neonatal intensive care units. METHODS The articles were selected from the MedLine, LILACS and SciElo data base using the key words: stress, burnout, physicians, nursing, intensive care unit, pediatric intensive care unit and neonatal intensive care unit. The studied...

OBJECTIVE The Vermont Oxford Network (VON) CARE Group was formed in response to the need to create organizational cultures supportive of change and quality improvement. METHODS The CARE Group consisted of team members from 4 participating neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). All CARE Group members chose to work on multidisciplinary teamwork for the duration of the Neonatal Intensive Care Qu...

Mortality rates of very small babies (those weighing 1500 g or less) born to mothers normally resident in the 11 health districts of the London portion of the North-east Thames Health Region in 1971-73 and 1975-77 were compared with admission rates to neonatal intensive care units in 1972 and 1976 in the region. There was no significant correlation between mortality and admission rates for babi...