A regionalised transport service, the way ahead?

What it found

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Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Specialist teams for neonatal transport to neonatal intensive care units for prevention of morbidity and mortality.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015
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2. Variation in hospital mortality in an Australian neonatal intensive care unit network.Archives of disease in childhood. Fetal and neonatal edition · 2018
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3. Neonatal transport practices in Ibadan, Nigeria.The Pan African medical journal · 2016
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4. Improved outcomes of transported neonates in Beijing: the impact of strategic changes in perinatal and regional neonatal transport network services.World journal of pediatrics : WJP · 2014
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5. Impact of service changes on neonatal transfer patterns over 10 years.Archives of disease in childhood. Fetal and neonatal edition · 2007
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6. An illness severity score and neonatal mortality in retrieved neonates.European journal of pediatrics · 2004
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7. Contemporary neonatal transport: problems and solutions.Archives of disease in childhood. Fetal and neonatal edition · 2004
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8. Does the use of a specialised paediatric retrieval service result in the loss of vital stabilisation skills among referring hospital staff?Archives of disease in childhood · 2003
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9. Interhospital transport to paediatric intensive care by specialised staff: experience of the South Thames combined transport service, 1998-2000.Archives of disease in childhood · 2002
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10. Outcome of very premature infants with necrotising enterocolitis cared for in centres with or without on site surgical facilities.Archives of disease in childhood. Fetal and neonatal edition · 2001
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11. Neonatal transportation: the effects of a national neonatal transportation programme.Irish journal of medical science
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Authors and funding

3 authors.

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Abstract

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