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Neonatal individualised care in practice, a Swedish experience

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Author

  • Björn Westrup
  • Karin Stjernqvist
  • Agneta Kleberg
  • Lena Hellström-Westas
  • H Lagercrantz

Summary, in English

A family-centred, developmentally supportive approach to newborn intensive care referred to as NIDCAP (Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Programme) has caught considerable interest during recent years. In this paper we review the scientific context behind its conceptual framework and summarize our experience from 10 years of training, implementation and research. We present the short- and long-term medical and developmental outcome of our Swedish NIDCAP studies as well as attitudes of nursing staff and neonatologists. Furthermore, ethical issues and scientific obstacles concerning this concept of care are discussed.

Publishing year

2002

Language

English

Pages

447-457

Publication/Series

Seminars in Neonatology

Volume

7

Issue

6

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Pediatrics

Keywords

  • neonatal
  • practice guidelines
  • treatment outcome
  • intensive care
  • premature
  • newborn
  • infant
  • human
  • child development
  • brain development

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1084-2756