… hospitals of standard neonatal and pediatric admission record forms; and c) a 5.5 day training,
spanning care of the sick newborn and child in intervention hospitals [… to control hospitals. …

… families often decline hospital referral. Our objective was to identify the predictors of acceptance
of referral for hospital care among families of severely ill newborns and infants <59 days …

… Costs of hospital care for very low birthweight infants There have been a number of studies
of the hospital costs of caring for very low brithweight infants.2,13,19-27 Table 2 summarizes …

… Defined levels of emergency obstetric care (EmOC) and … of maternal care in low- and
middle-income countries (LMICs). Levels of newborn care, particularly for small and sick newborns, …

… care for newborns has two components, that is, essential newborn care for all and care of sick
newborns… For providing these services, three levels of newborn care have been defined in …

… For service readiness to provide inpatient care for small and sick newborns, our matrix
detailed over 600 structural characteristics. Our review of the SPA, the SARA and the EmONC …

… The vision of providing quality care to sick newborns is part of a wider global movement - …
approaches to provide quality care for mothers and newborns, using coordinated research and …

… Conclusion: Home deliveries and poor newborn care practices are … High risk traditional
newborn care practices like delayed … that knowledge to identify sickness in newborn is still poor. …

… between sick infants and healthy infants, even with the aid of adjuvant laboratory tests. Care
… to birth weight, performing blood glucose monitoring in infants at risk of hypoglycemia). …

… Sick newborns without insurance received fewer inpatient services than comparable …
newborns with either indemnity or prepaid coverage. This pattern was observed across all hospital …