The Alberta Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Mother-Baby Care ImprovEmeNT (NASCENT) program: protocol for a stepped wedge cluster randomized trial of a hospital-level Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome rooming-in intervention

• Main Authors: Osnat Wine (Author), Deborah McNeil (Author), Seija K. Kromm (Author), Karen Foss (Author), Vera Caine (Author), Denise Clarke (Author), Nathaniel Day (Author), David W. Johnson (Author), Katherine Rittenbach (Author), Stephen Wood (Author), Matt Hicks (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2023-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

Abstract Background Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS), a problem common in newborns exposed to substances in-utero, is an emerging health concern. In traditional models of care, infants with NAS are routinely separated from their mothers and admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) with...