Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition 2008;93:F10-F13
LEADING ARTICLES
Review of NICE guidelines on routine postnatal infant care
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Dr M Sellwood, Neonatal Unit, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Obstetric Hospital, University College London Hospital, Huntley Street, London WC1E 6DH, UK; mark.sellwood@uclh.nhs.uk
Accepted 8 August 2007
| The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below. |
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has recently published guidelines on the management of women and their newborn infants during the first 6–8 weeks after delivery.1 NICE guidelines aim at describing the "best practice advice on the core care of women and their babies during the postnatal period". The present scheme of postnatal care was developed many years ago and NICE has reviewed it based on existing evidence. Unsurprisingly, the scientific evidence for best practice is incomplete. The money and time spent on postnatal care in Britain alone justify a systematic evaluation, but the clinical efficacy of existing practice has also raised concerns. The high proportion of women who intend but fail to breast feed successfully, the number of women who complain of additional health problems in the weeks following delivery and the number of infants with significant anomalies that are unrecognised when examined postnatally2–5 are some
CiteULike 
Complore 
Connotea 
Del.icio.us 
Digg 
Reddit 
Technorati What's this?
This article has been cited by other articles:
-
Elder, C. J., Ackerman, B., Kingdon, C.
(2008). Audit cycle of newborn observations on the postnatal wards. Arch. Dis. Child. Fetal Neonatal Ed.
93: F475-F475
[Full Text]
- Full Text
- Full Text (PDF)
-
All Versions of this Article:
adc.2006.111757v1
93/1/F10 most recent - Submit a response
- Alert me when this article is cited
- Alert me when eLetters are posted
- Alert me if a correction is posted
- Citation Map
Services
- Email this link to a friend
- Similar articles in ADC Online
- Similar articles in PubMed
- Add article to my folders
- Download to citation manager
- Request Permissions
Citing Articles
Google Scholar
PubMed
Topic Collections
-
Childhood nutrition
-
Reproductive medicine
-
Infant nutrition (including breastfeeding)
-
Child health
-
Infant health
Bookmark with
Register for free content
The full back archive is now available for all BMJ Journals. Institutional subscribers may access the entire archive as part of their subscription. Personal subscribers will also have access to all content when logged in. Non-subscribers who register have free access to all articles published before 2006 right back to volume 1 issue 1. Register here to access the free archive of all BMJ Journals.
Don't forget to sign up for content alerts so you keep up to date with all the articles as they are published.
