A new review published in Health Affairs Scholar highlights significant limitations in the existing evidence base for perinatal palliative care ...

Objective To examine the effects of designation and volume of neonatal care at the hospital of birth on mortality and morbidity outcomes in very preterm infants in a managed clinical network setting.

Poor routine data undermines efforts to monitor and promote improvements in the quality of newborn care across hospitals in LMICs. Neonates (aged 0–28 days) account for almost half and two-thirds of ...

This guideline is designed for North American healthcare providers who are looking for an up-to-date summary for clinical care, as well as for those who are seeking more in-depth information on ...

1 Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, United States 2 Department of Nursing, York College of Pennsylvania, York, PA, United ...

A woman who lied about her qualifications to get a job as a senior nurse caring for sick and premature babies has been banned ...

Low and middle income countries need effective and simple methods to improve hospital-based neonatal care. Bubble continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) may have a role in improving the quality of ...

We propose the creation of a national strategy for palliative care led by the federal government and supported by payers and regulators. The strategy would include defined structures and processes ...

A scientific statement regarding palliative and end-of-life care in patients with critical cardiovascular illness has been published by the AHA. The American Heart Association (AHA) released a ...

NEW YORK – A tiny obstacle course for immune cells may someday help neonatal intensive care unit clinicians to quickly detect fatal bloodstream infections. Described recently in Pediatric Research, a ...

Dr Anne Merriman, a visionary humanitarian who introduced palliative care to Uganda and much of Africa, has died at the age of 90. Widely regarded as the “mother of palliative care in Africa ...

Premature infants are at risk of maladaptive outcomes and neurodevelopment delays. Patients who spend their early life in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) can undergo profound alterations of ...