Biomedical subjects

A Schwoebel

Publications and source records attributed to A Schwoebel.

3 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed1999

A clinical pathway system for the neonatal intensive care nursery.

Health care reform, managed care, and the current outcomes movement have generated a rapid acceleration toward the development and implementation of clinical pathways in the field of neonatology. This article describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of an interdisciplinary clinical pathway system for a neonatal intensive care nursery. This neonatal clinical pathway is a clinical tool that delineates practice guidelines for each discipline that provides care to a specific infant population. It has reduced variation in clinical process and thereby has been shown to improve the quality of infant care. When practice guidelines and documentation are linked to health and economic outcomes, they begin to significantly impact health care costs.

Critical Pathways↗

PubMed1997

Hyperbilirubinemia: new approaches to an old problem.

Hyperbilirubinemia continues to be a common problem of the term and near-term neonate. Each year more than 60% of infants born in the United States develop jaundice, making it difficult at times to differentiate jaundice due to pathologic reasons from jaundice due to physiologic ones. Now, the knowledge that bilirubin may even have a beneficial role as an antioxidant has caused a great deal of renewed interest in the management of jaundice. The American Academy of Pediatrics has published revised guidelines for management of neonatal jaundice that have resulted in much discussion. The article reviews current theories of bilirubin production and clearance, noninvasive and nonintrusive techniques to assess and care for jaundice, and newer concepts of preventive and treatment modalities from a nursing perspective.

Bilirubin↗

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Care mapping: a common sense approach.

Because of trends in the health care environment, hospitals are searching for ways to continuously improve the quality of care and to decrease the costs of care. One approach that is gaining widespread recognition throughout the United States is the use of case management and practice guidelines such as critical paths, CareMaps, and in the neonatal field, NeoMaps. The NeoMap is a clinical tool which delineates practice guidelines for each discipline that provide care to a specific infant population. It reduces variation in clinical process and thereby has been shown to improve the quality of infant care. When practice guidelines are linked to both health and economic outcomes, they have significant impact on health care costs. In this paper, case management and the development of the NeoMap will be described in relation to the Intensive Care Nursery (ICN) at Pennsylvania Hospital.

Case Management↗