Eat, Sleep, Console Approach or Usual Care for Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although clinicians have traditionally used the Finnegan Neonatal Abstinence Scoring Tool to assess the severity of neonatal opioid withdrawal, a newer function-based approach - the Eat, Sleep, Console care approach - is increasing in use. Whether the new approach can safely reduce the time until infants are medically ready for discharge when it is applied broadly across diverse sites is unknown.

Methods

In this cluster-randomized, controlled trial at 26 U.S. hospitals, we enrolled infants with neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome who had been born at 36 weeks' gestation or more. At a randomly assigned time, hospitals transitioned from usual care that used the Finnegan tool to the Eat, Sleep, Console approach. During a 3-month transition period, staff members at ea

SUBMITTER: Young LW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10433732 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature