Bilateral Hearing Impairment in Dutch Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Infants with Unilateral Failure on Hearing Screening

Malnutrition in critically ill children: From admission to 6 months after discharge

Background & Aims: Little is known about the nutritional status of critically ill children during hospitalisation in and after discharge from an intensive care unit. We set up a prospective, observational study to evaluate the nutritional status of children in an intensive care unit from admission up to 6 months after discharge. A secondary aim...

Implementation of a nation-wide automated auditory brainstem response hearing screening programme in neonatal intensive care units

Aim: As part of a future national neonatal hearing screening programme in the Netherlands, automated auditory brainstem response (AABR) hearing screening was implemented in seven neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). The objective was to evaluate key outcomes of this programme: participation rate, first stage success rate, pass/referral rates,...

Development and evaluation of a follow up assessment of preterm infants at 5 years of age

Background: Long term follow up shows a high frequency of developmental disturbances in preterm survivors of neonatal intensive care formerly considered non-disabled. Aims: To develop and validate an assessment tool that can help paediatricians to identify before 6 years of age which survivors have developmental disturbances that may interfere...

Quality of life in preschool children born preterm

The relationship of preterm birth to health-related quality of life (HRQoL) was examined for children aged 1 to 4 years. Three gestational age groups with a NICU history were selected, <32 weeks (n=65), 32 to 36 weeks (n=41),≥37 weeks (n=54), and a reference group from the open population (n=50). The main instrument was the TNO-AZL Preschool...

Toename van het aantal vroeggeboorten in Nederland: Vergelijking van 1983 en 1993 [ Increase of preterm birth in the Netherlands in 1993 compared with 1983 ]

Objective. Survey of changes in the number of preterm and very low birth weight infants in the Netherlands in ten years. Design. Descriptive. Setting. TNO Preventie en Gezondheid, sector Jeugd, Leiden, the Netherlands. Method. All infants with a gestational age less than 32 weeks and (or) a birth weight less than 1500 g from the National...

Toename van perinatale verwijzing naar regionale centra bij vroeggeboorte in Nederland : Vergelijking van 1983 en 1993 [Increased perinatal referral to regional centres of premature infants in the Netherlands : Comparison of 1983 and 1993]

Objective. To determine changes in referral of preterm newborns. Design. Descriptive. Setting. Foundation for Perinatal Epidemiology the Netherlands, Leiden. Methods. Data regarding hospital of birth, referral, need of intensive care and mortality of the infants < 32 weeks and (or) < 1500 g birth weight born in 1993 from the National Neonatology...

Evaluatie onderzoek artikel 18 neonatale intensive care

Gezondheidsproblemen na ernstige vroeggeboorte: 9 jaar naonderzoek [Health problems after very premature birth; nine years follow-up]

Evaluation of care for the preterm infant: Review of literature on follow-up of preterm and low birthweight infants : Report from the collaborative Project On Preterm and Small for gestational age infants (POPS) in The Netherlands

Since the introduction of neonatal intensive care in the 1960s, mortality in very preterm and very low birthweight infants has been decreasing steadily. Consequently, interest in the outcome of surviving infants is growing. Restriction of health care resources has stressed the need for information concerning the effect of individual treatment...