Article Link BACKGROUND US infant mortality rate (IMR), defined as deaths under 1 year of age per 1000 live births, is higher among rural infants than their urban counterparts. Although much…
Read More from AAP: Rural-Urban Disparities in Mortality Among US-Born Preterm Infants
Article Link OBJECTIVE We aimed to evaluate the enforcement of a staff-initiated children’s hospital safe sleep policy for evidence of systemic racism. PATIENTS AND METHODS Retrospective medical record review of…
Article Link ABSTRACT Background and Objectives: Historically, care for newborns with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) focused on pharmacotherapy provided in a neonatal intensive care setting. The understanding of optimal care…
Article Link CONTEXT Hypothermia after very preterm birth, typically defined as a temperature less than 36 °C, is variably linked to neonatal mortality and morbidities. OBJECTIVE To examine the association…
Read More from AAP: Hypothermia and Adverse Outcomes in Very Preterm Infants: A Systematic Review
Article Link Background CP is the most common childhood-onset physical disability3 and the most common lifelong neurologic disability.4 Primary care pediatricians are called to create medical homes for people with CP, including…
Read More from AAP: The Need to Standardize the Diagnosis of Cerebral Palsy
Article Link Introduction A 35 3/7-week 2.7 kg infant was born by vaginal delivery after premature rupture of membranes and preterm labor. Pregnancy was complicated only by short cervix with one…
Read More from AAP: Let Me Stay With Mom! – Safely Doing Less for 35-Week Infants
Article Link Background Despite extensive research in basic science and in clinical settings with thousands of infants over decades, uncertainty and controversy persist regarding the significance, assessment, and management of…
Read More from AAP: Patent Ductus Arteriosus in Preterm Infants
Article Link OBJECTIVE Examine the perspectives of newborn clinicians and parents on communication around newborn toxicology testing. METHODS We conducted semistructured interviews from 2021 to 2022 with 15 newborn clinicians…
Article Link BACKGROUND Initial studies of patient- and family-centered rounds (PFCR) in pediatrics used parental interest in participating as the primary outcome. There are mixed results of family satisfaction with…
Article Link BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES COVID-19 vaccination is recommended during pregnancy; however, evidence on the prevalence of major structural birth defects born to people vaccinated early in pregnancy (≤20 weeks of…
Read More from AAP: COVID-19 Vaccination During Pregnancy and Major Structural Birth Defects
Article Link ABSTRACT Disclosure of adverse events has become the expectation in medicine and is widely regarded as the appropriate path when medical errors occur. Although data are limited on…
Read More from AAP: Disclosure of Adverse Events in Pediatrics: Policy Statement
Article Link CONTEXT The postnatal management of preterm infants at birth may influence their clinical course in the short, medium, and long term. The concept of the “Golden Hour” (GH)…
Read More from AAP: Standardized Management of the First Hour of Premature Infants: A Meta-Analysis
Article Link OBJECTIVE Assess postintervention and dose effects of a child obesity prevention program, delivered from pregnancy through the age of 3 years, on child weight outcomes at the ages of…
Article Link OBJECTIVE Although newborn screening (NBS) programs were expanded with the implementation of tandem mass spectrometry in the late 1990s, the impact on long-term clinical and cognitive outcomes of…
Article Link OBJECTIVE The Eat, Sleep, Console (ESC) model of care is an innovative care approach for infants diagnosed with neonatal abstinence syndrome, improving patient and health system outcomes for…
Read More from AAP: Implementing the Eat, Sleep, Console Model of Care: A Scoping Review
Article Link ABSTRACT Let us imagine a medical problem for which there is a new, effective treatment. This treatment reduces length of hospitalization, decreases medication use, and lowers health care…
Article Link Between 2007 and 2017, rates of neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS) have drastically increased. Although current evidence suggests that chronic prenatal opioid exposure may result in adverse neurodevelopmental…
Article Link OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness and risks of probiotics among infants born before 34 weeks’ gestation and with a birth weight less than 1000 g. METHODS A population-based retrospective cohort…
Read More from AAP: Effectiveness and Risks of Probiotics in Preterm Infants
Article Link ABSTRACT Antibiotic stewardship in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) has drawn much attention over the last decade following reports of antibiotic overuse and unexplained prescribing variation1,2 and reports…
Article Link OBJECTIVE Antibiotics are the most frequently prescribed pharmacologic agents in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Antibiotic treatment for suspected or culture-negative sepsis surpasses that for culture-proven infection….
Article Link BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) aggregate service and outcome descriptions focus on high-illness-acuity neonates. We sought to describe the high-level landscape of lower-acuity inborn NICU…
Article Link BACKGROUND The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends up to 7 days of observation for neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS) in infants with chronic opioid exposure. However, many of these…
Read More from AAP: Adapting a Risk Prediction Tool for Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome
Article Link CONTEXT Extubation failure (EF) is common in preterm neonates and may be associated with adverse outcomes. OBJECTIVE To systematically review and meta-analyze the existing literature on predictors and…
Article Link BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Infants with neonatal hyperbilirubinemia (NH) often require admission after their birth hospitalization for treatment with phototherapy. Our aim was to align local practice with updated…
Article Link A G1P1 mother aged 28 years delivers a healthy 38 4/7-week infant via cesarean section due to failure to progress. After 48 hours of moderately successful breastfeeding attempts with…
Article Link Infant mortality has decreased over time.1 However, temporal trends and disparities in specific causes of death have not been recently examined. This cross-sectional study used infant mortality rates from…
Article Link OBJECTIVE The Eat, Sleep, Console (ESC) model of care is an innovative care approach for infants diagnosed with neonatal abstinence syndrome, improving patient and health system outcomes for…
Read More from AAP: Implementing the Eat, Sleep, Console Model of Care: A Scoping Review
Article Link OBJECTIVES To assess whether exposure to an infant safe sleep initiative was associated with maternal report of infant safe sleep practice at home and to identify other predictive…
Read More from AAP: A Hospital-Based Initiative for Infant Safe Sleep Practice
Article Link Critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) screening was added to the US Recommended Uniform Screening Panel in 2011 and adopted by all US states and territories by 2018. In…
Article Link. OBJECTIVE: To assess the frequency of hepatitis C virus (HCV) testing among a population-based cohort of perinatally exposed children and identify factors associated with testing. METHODS: Using a…
Read More from AAP: Hepatitis C Virus Testing Among Perinatally Exposed Children: 2018 to 2020