Since newborn infants cannot express their pain with words, staff need to assess their pain by looking at their behaviours and vital signs instead. Many different rating scales can be used for this, ...

A Cochrane review reveals significant gaps in the clinical rating scales used to assess pain in newborn babies, highlighting the urgent need for improved tools and global collaboration. The review is ...

Opioid-exposed infants display a wide and variable range ... using the NICU Network Neurobehavioral Scale (NNNS), and explores the relationships between maternal factors and infant functioning.

as measured by the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development (BSID-III). Around half the children in both groups were found to be at risk of developmental delay—consistent with ...

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the quality of early childhood education (with the Infant/Toddler Environment Rating Scale - Revised); (c) the quality of the home environment (with the Home Observation for Measurement of the ...

The CPS-Ped may be an efficient outcome metric for monitoring disease severity and clinical improvement over time among infants with RSV-related critical illness.

But until now, pairing observations of infants with brain imaging had been out of reach, as babies are famously uncooperative when it comes to sitting still inside a functional magnetic resonance ...

Lead is dangerous to human health in water, soil and air. A new study shows a relationship between lead pollution in air and ...