Quality-Improvement Effort to Reduce Hypothermia Among High-Risk Infants on a Mother-Infant Unit

201845 citationsJournal Article

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Christine B Andrews · Providence College

Colleen Whatley · Children's Hospital at Dartmouth Hitchcock

Meaghan Smith · Elliot Hospital

Emily Caron Brayton · Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center

Suzanne Simone · Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center

Alison Volpe Holmes · Children's Hospital at Dartmouth Hitchcock

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Targeted interventions can significantly reduce hypothermia in otherwise healthy LPIs and/or LBW newborns and allow them to safely remain in a mother-infant unit. If applied broadly, such preventive practices could decrease preventable hypothermia in high-risk populations.

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Neonatal Respiratory Health Research Infant Development and Preterm Care Neuroscience of respiration and sleep

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Published in: PEDIATRICS

Volume 141, Issue 3, pp. e20171214-e20171214

DOI: 10.1542/peds.2017-1214

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Quality-Improvement Effort to Reduce Hypothermia Among High-Risk Infants on a Mother-Infant Unit

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