The impact of national and international guidelines on newborn care in the nurseries of Piedmont and Aosta Valley, Italy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Care procedures for preventing neonatal diseases are carried out according to nurseries' traditions and may be not consistent with the evidence based medicine issues.

Methods

A multi-centric survey was conducted in 2 Regions located in NW Italy (Piedmont and Aosta Valley) in order to collect information on some healthy newborn care procedures. During 2001, a questionnaire was sent to the chief pediatrician in charge to the all 33 nurseries of the region asking the methods used during 2000 as prevention of ophthalmia neonatorum, early and late hemorrhagic disease of newborn, umbilical cord care and recommendations of vitamin D administration. Thereafter, during 2004 the same questionnaire was sent to the 34 chief pediatrician of nurseries to evaluate if the procedu

SUBMITTER: Guala A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1315318 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature