TY - JOUR T1 - Evaluation of advanced neonatal nurse practitioners: confidential enquiry into the management of sentinel cases JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition JO - Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed SP - F241 LP - F244 DO - 10.1136/adc.2002.022301 VL - 89 IS - 3 AU - M P Ward Platt AU - K Brown Y1 - 2004/05/01 UR - http://fn.bmj.com/content/89/3/F241.abstract N2 - 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. ER -