An implementation study of neonatal hearing screening in the Netherlands

The objective of this study was to investigate whether universal neonatal hearing screening could be integrated in the youth health care program. The screening was performed by nurses of the well baby clinics. A three stage transient evoked otoacoustic emission screening was performed in three different screening settings in order to study the...

Belemmeringen voor couveuse-thuiszorg in Nederland [Impediments to incubator home care in the Netherlands]

Objective. To determine whether incubator home care is desirable and feasible. Design. Inventory. Setting. Four neonatal units representative of the type of care in general hospitals in the Netherlands. Method. The relevant data on all infants with a birth weight ≤ 2000 g admitted in the last 3 months of 1996 to one of four hospitals were...

Gunstige ervaringen met intraveneuze antimicrobiele therapie buiten het ziekenhuis [Good results of intravenous antimicrobial treatment outside the hospital]

Objective. To determine whether intravenous home treatment with antimicrobial drugs of patients with an infection is feasible. Design. Descriptive. Setting. Academic Hospital, Leiden, the Netherlands. Method. In October 1992 a programme for intravenous home treatment of patients with infectious diseases was started. The programme was based on...

The future and health care technology: Implications of a system for early identification

Future and emerging health care technologies are increasingly high-impact events for society in terms of the quality and costs of health care. They raise issues of efficacy, safety, resource allocation, ethics, impact on the organization and delivery of care, and broad social effects. This article describes an analysis of future and emerging...

Possibilities and problems in the development of home care technology

Limited resources for health care and increasing health care costs have led to proposals to expand home care services. Presently, home care technology is rather primitive. Its development and use have been largely unplanned. Nonetheless, home care technology is growing in response to obvious needs, and a number of experiments in the Netherlands...