ArticlePaediatrics & child health2010
Safe discharge of the late preterm infant.
Article in Paediatrics & child health, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04400175 (Effects on Coordination of Sucking, Swallowing and Breathing Process of a Valved Feeding System in Late-preterm Newborns. The Safe Oral Feeding Trial), which is not on this map. Cited by 14 papers.
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Effects on Coordination of Sucking, Swallowing and Breathing Process of a Valved Feeding System in Late-preterm Newborns. The Safe Oral Feeding Trial (SOFT)
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Parent Understanding and Satisfaction with NICU Discharge for Infants with Medical Complexity: A Scoping Review of Discharge Instruction Tools.Research square · 2026Article
- Effectiveness of neonatal early supported transfer to home interventions: implications for practise.The practising midwife · 2023Article
- Demystifying non-invasive approaches for screening jaundice in low resource settings: a review.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2023Review
- Going home with baby: innovative and comprehensive support for new mothers.Primary health care research & development · 2018Article
- Facilitating discharge from hospital of the healthy term infant.Paediatrics & child health · 2018Review
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- Caring for late preterm infants: public health nurses' experiences.BMC nursing · 2018Article
- Examining Early Childhood Health Outcomes of Children Born Late Preterm in Urban Manitoba.Maternal and child health journal · 2017Article
- Management of term infants at increased risk for early-onset bacterial sepsis.Paediatrics & child health · 2017Article
- Newborn Length of Stay and Risk of Readmission.Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology · 2017Article
- Association between Apnea of Prematurity and Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Late Preterm Infants: An Observational Study.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2016Article
- A national survey of admission practices for late preterm infants in England.BMC pediatrics · 2014Article
- Going home: Facilitating discharge of the preterm infant.Paediatrics & child health · 2014Article
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Abstract
Late preterm infants are infants who are premature, but often mature enough to be managed in settings and with treatment plans appropriate for term newborns. They are arbitrarily defined as infants born at gestational ages of 34, 35 and 36 weeks. Late preterm infants have more problems with adaptation than term infants, and may require neonatal intensive care and prolonged admission. However, those who do not may, appropriately, be triaged to mother-baby care in a low-risk nursery setting. Special attention must be offered to the late preterm infant in ensuring adequate thermal homeostasis and the establishment of successful feeding before discharge. In particular, care must be taken to ensure that these babies do not experience severe late hyperbilirubinemia, which characteristically occurs in the breastfeeding late preterm infant at four to five days of age and is not always predictable by routine bilirubin screening before 48 h of age. Discharge of a late preterm infant places particular demands on the community; accessible facilities for retesting, re-evaluation and readmission must be made available by the discharging institution.
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