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Neonatal transfers – a thin layer of glue to keep the service network together?
Neonatal transfers – a thin layer of glue to keep the service network together?
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Gorm Greisen
Department of Neonatology, 5024 Rigshospitalet, Blegdamsvej 9, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark; greisen@rh.dk
Accepted 2 November 2006
Perspective on the papers by Cusack et al (see page F181) and Kempley et al (see page F185)
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This issue of the Archives brings two papers on neonatal transport. The paper of Cusack et al1 is of a pessimistic key. Reporting from the former Trent Health Region, with its longstanding Neonatal Survey (formerly Trent Neonatal Survey), the authors note that the proportion of inappropriate transfers amounted to as much as 20% of all transfers, with no evidence of decline over a 10 year period. Inappropriate transfer was defined as the transfer beyond the nearest appropriate neonatal service of a baby born in a service’s district or transfer of a baby out of a tertiary neonatal service in the district where it was born. The focus in this paper is on transfers as a remedy for the lack of capacity of the stationary services—as an indicator of insufficiency.
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