Features of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Network Neurobehavioral Scale that make the examination useful for clinical application are described. Clinical applications in various settings and populations are described. This is followed by a summary of the clinical significance of the examination according to the packages of administration. We then explain how to use the summary scores clinica...

Editor-in-Chief, Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal; Director of the Department of Neonatology and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel; Ruth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel; Associate Editor, Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal; Director of Medical and Research Development, Rambam Health Care Campus,...

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Mayo Medical School, and Consultant, Division of Executive and International Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA; and Editor-in-Chief, Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal and Director of the Department of Neonatology and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel, and the Ruth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israe...

abstract background: clinical guidelines are important instruments for increasing the quality of clinical practice in the treatment team. compilation of clinical guidelines is important due to special condition of the neonates and the nurses facing critical conditions in the neonatal intensive care unit (nicu). with 98% of neonatal deaths occurring in nicus in the hospitals, it is important to ...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the impact on mortality and duration of stay of weekend admission of paediatric patients to the Paediatric/Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (PNICU). METHODS Retrospective, nine-year cohort study. The study was performed in a tertiary level PNICU between 1 January 1999 and 31 December 2007. Data about the day of admission, diagnosis, outcome, and duration of stay was collec...

BACKGROUND The neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) can be one of the most stressful hospital environments. Alongside providing intensive clinical care, it is important that parents have the opportunity for regular physical contact with their babies because the neonatal period is critical for parent-child bonding. At present, monitoring technology in the NICU requires multiple wired sensors to t...

Congenital tuberculosis is uncommon, and nosocomial transmission from a congenitally infected infant to another infant has not been reported in the English literature. We report an investigation of 2 infants with tuberculosis who were cared for in the same neonatal intensive care unit. Isolates from both infants were genetically indistinguishable. Transmission between the 2 infants was likely d...

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...