PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - M P Ward Platt
AU  - K Brown
TI  - Evaluation of advanced neonatal nurse practitioners: confidential enquiry into the management of sentinel cases
AID  - 10.1136/adc.2002.022301
DP  - 2004 May 01
TA  - Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition
PG  - F241--F244
VI  - 89
IP  - 3
4099  - http://fn.bmj.com/content/89/3/F241.short
4100  - http://fn.bmj.com/content/89/3/F241.full
SO  - Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed2004 May 01; 89
AB  - Objective: To evaluate the quality of the neonatal care delivered by an advanced neonatal nurse practitioner led service at Ashington Hospital, Northumberland. Setting: Maternity service with no resident paediatric medical input. Design: Comparison of quality measures on sentinel cases with five comparator hospitals using modified confidential enquiry. Results: On six out of seven dimensions, the neonatal nurse practitioner service performed better than the average of the five comparator hospitals, and overall ranked second. Conclusion: Good quality neonatal care can be delivered by advanced neonatal nurse practitioners alone, without the support of resident junior paediatricians.