Parental satisfaction with neonatal intensive care units: a quantitative cross-sectional study.

Background: Patients and users experiences are useful for monitoring the quality of the hospital provisions and to improve health care delivery. Research results on associations between parental satisfaction and their socio-demographic status are inconclusive. We have also found a scarcity of research on the associations between parental satisfaction and standards of neonatal intensive care (NICU) services.

Validation of the Neonatal Satisfaction Survey (NSS-8) in six Norwegian neonatal intensive care units: a quantitative cross-sectional study.

Background: The experience of having their new-borns admitted to an intensive care unit (NICU) can be extremely distressing. Subsequent risk of post-incident-adjustment difficulties are increased for parents, siblings, and affected families. Patient and next of kin satisfaction surveys provide key indicators of quality in health care.

Development and validation of Neonatal Satisfaction Survey--NSS-13.

Aims: The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a survey to investigate parents' satisfaction with neonatal wards in a population of parents of children with a gestation age of ≥24 weeks to 3 months after full-term birth.

Method: We explored the literature and conducted three focus groups: two with expert health personnel and one with parents. We tested the survey in a parent population (N = 105) and report the different stages in the validation process along with the full survey, the Neonatal Satisfaction Survey - 13 categories (NSS-13).

[Obstetric analgesia in Norwegian hospitals].

Background: Experience from our hospital has shown a significant increase in the use of epidural analgesia during labour. We wanted to see if this was a general trend in Norway, and wanted to find out for what kind of labour analgesia was offered in the different labour wards.

Material And Method: A questionnaire concerning obstetric analgesia and anaesthetic methods for caesarean section was sent to chief anaesthetists and head midwives in Norwegian hospitals.

Absence of the 145,000 Molecular Weight, Soluble Platelet Membrane Glycoprotein - Lack of Platelet Agglutination.

One step in the function of platelets in hemostasis is their adhesion to subendothelial tissue. The human factor VIII related protein (von Willebrand factor) is considered to be involved in the adhesion phenomenon (Baumgartner et al. 1977).