Recommended standards for newborn ICU design, eighth edition

R D White; J A Smith; M M Shepley; Committee to Establish Recommended Standards for Newborn ICU Design

doi:10.1038/jp.2013.10

Recommended standards for newborn ICU design, eighth edition

J Perinatol. 2013 Apr:33 Suppl 1:S2-16. doi: 10.1038/jp.2013.10.

Authors

R D White¹, J A Smith, M M Shepley; Committee to Establish Recommended Standards for Newborn ICU Design

Collaborators

Committee to Establish Recommended Standards for Newborn ICU Design:
Joy Browne, Douglas Erickson, Skip Gregory, Beverly H Johnson, Robert Cicco, Oslec B Fernandez, James W Harrell, Carol Kenner, Michael S Dunn, Stanley N Graven, Carol B Jaeger, Jerald D King, Kathleen J S Kolberg, Gilbert L Martin, D Paul Shackelford Jr, Judith A Smith, George A Little, M Kathleen Philbin, Mardelle McCuskey Shepley, Robert D White, Anna Marshall-Baker, Mark S Rea, Chris Smith, Lynne Wilson Orr

Affiliation

¹ Regional Newborn Program Memorial Hospital, South Bend, IN, USA. Robert_White@pediatrix.com

PMID: 23536026
DOI: 10.1038/jp.2013.10

Abstract

This is the eighth edition of the Recommended Standards for Newborn ICU Design. It contains substantive changes in recommendations for patient room size and feeding preparation areas, and a number of refinements of previous Recommended Standards with respect to family space, hand hygiene, lighting and other aspects of the newborn intensive care unit (NICU) design.

Publication types

Guideline

MeSH terms

Hand Disinfection / standards
Hospital Design and Construction / standards*
Intensive Care Units, Neonatal*
Interior Design and Furnishings / standards
Laundry Service, Hospital / standards
Lighting
Operating Rooms / standards
Transportation of Patients
Ventilation / standards