Specific newborn individualized developmental care and assessment program movements are associated with acute pain in preterm infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

OBJECTIVE: The Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program (NIDCAP) is widely used in neonatal intensive care units and comprises 85 discrete infant behaviors, some of which may communicate infant distress. The objective of this study was to identify developmentally relevant mov...

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Published in:Pediatrics Vol. 114; no. 1; pp. 65 - 73
Main Authors: Holsti L, Grunau RE, Oberlander TF, Whitfield MF
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: American Academy of Pediatrics Jul2004
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