New Method For Neonatal ICUs Reduces Infection And Lung Distress In Premature Infants

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Thu, 13 Aug 2009

The researchers developed the Evidence-based Practice for Improving Quality method and applied it to 12 Canadian Neonatal Network hospitals over a 3-year period. Working in multidisciplinary groups, each hospital developed a list of hospital-specific practice changes and priorities to implement in the neonatal ICU.

The study included 6519 infants divided into 3 groups

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The researchers developed the Evidence-based Practice for Improving Quality method and applied it to 12 Canadian Neonatal Network hospitals over a 3-year...