{"id":19,"date":"2007-10-22T22:00:32","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T21:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resource.bmj.com\/adc-archimedes\/2007\/08\/28\/are-there-effective-strategies-to-reduce-the-length-of-stay-for-%e2%80%9cwell%e2%80%9d-near-term-babies\/"},"modified":"2007-10-22T22:00:32","modified_gmt":"2007-10-22T21:00:32","slug":"are-there-effective-strategies-to-reduce-the-length-of-stay-for-%e2%80%9cwell%e2%80%9d-near-term-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2007\/10\/22\/are-there-effective-strategies-to-reduce-the-length-of-stay-for-%e2%80%9cwell%e2%80%9d-near-term-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"Are there effective strategies to reduce the length of stay for \u201cwell\u201d near-term babies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/201\/485887741_47b1ffc999_t.jpg\" alt=\"Premature baby\" align=\"left\" height=\"75\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"100\" \/>Length of stay for &#8216;well&#8217; near term (30-36 week gestation) babies varies between units and between countries, with the UK average being discharge at 36+2 weeks corrected. What strategies are in place in your unit to help these &#8216;small but well&#8217; babies get out of precious neonatal cots into their own lovingly decorated cribs at home? And more to the Archimedes point &#8211; is there any evidence these interventions work?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The team  at Northwick Park have both reviewed their own practice and the evidence that underlies it <a href=\"http:\/\/adc.bmj.com\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/adc.2007.131326v1?archiblog\">here<\/a>; what do you think of their answers?<\/p>\n<p><strong> Authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nivedita Bajaj, Richard  Nicholl; Neonatal Unit, Northwick Park, Harrow HA1 3UJ.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:Richard.Nicholl@NWLH.NHS.UK\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">The photo is used under the creativecommons2.0 licence, originals to be found <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/beckmann\/485887741\/\">here<\/a><\/font><!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Length of stay for &#8216;well&#8217; near term (30-36 week gestation) babies varies between units and between countries, with the UK average being discharge at 36+2 weeks corrected. What strategies are in place in your unit to help these &#8216;small but well&#8217; babies get out of precious neonatal cots into their own lovingly decorated cribs at [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2007\/10\/22\/are-there-effective-strategies-to-reduce-the-length-of-stay-for-%e2%80%9cwell%e2%80%9d-near-term-babies\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,104,83,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answered","category-discharge","category-nicu","category-service-organisation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}