Integrated Review of the Assessment of Newborns With Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To critically review and summarize current knowledge regarding the assessment of newborns with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS).

Data sources

We searched the following databases for articles on the assessment of newborns with NAS that were published in English between January 2014 and June 2020: PubMed, CINAHL, and PsycINFO. Keywords and Medical Subject Heading terms used to identify relevant research articles included neonatal abstinence syndrome; Finnegan Scale; eat, sleep, console; epigenetics; genetics; pharmacokinetics; and measurement. We independently reviewed articles for inclusion.

Study selection

We retrieved 435 articles through database searches and 17 through manual reference searches; 31 articles are included in the final review. Excluded art

SUBMITTER: Casavant SG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8429083 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature