Reimagining Neonatal Follow-Up: An Equitable Model of Care Emphasizing Family and Child Function

Paige Terrien Church; Rudaina Banihani; Jonathan Samuel Litt; Michael Msall

doi:10.1016/j.pcl.2024.07.027

Reimagining Neonatal Follow-Up: An Equitable Model of Care Emphasizing Family and Child Function

Pediatr Clin North Am. 2025 Feb;72(1):93-109. doi: 10.1016/j.pcl.2024.07.027. Epub 2024 Sep 5.

Authors

Paige Terrien Church¹, Rudaina Banihani², Jonathan Samuel Litt³, Michael Msall⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neonatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, Rose 334, Boston, MA 02215, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Department of Neonatology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, 1875 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5N 3T5, Canada.
³ Department of Neonatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, Rose 334, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Comer Children's Hospital, 5721 South Maryland Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.

PMID: 39603729
DOI: 10.1016/j.pcl.2024.07.027

Abstract

This review of the history of neonatal follow-up identifies the challenges, inequity in access to care and the inequity in care delivery. It also reviews the outcomes of prematurity with a focus on common outcomes and those outcomes identified by parents as important. It assimilates the evidence around various models of care to model a program that provides care in all environments (rural and urban), leveraging local resources in collaboration with academic centers to provide greater equity in care delivery and an emphasis on function, rather than data collection.

Keywords: Behavioral phenotype of prematurity; Health care equity; Hybrid care; Neonatal follow-up; Neonatal outcomes.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Health Services Accessibility / organization & administration
Healthcare Disparities
Humans
Infant, Newborn
Infant, Premature*