Neonatal individualised care in practice, a Swedish experience
Author
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.
Department/s
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