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General Care Guidelines

The UW Center on Human Development and Disability and Mary Bridge Children's Hospital & Health Center have developed care guidelines and parent materials for low birth weight and extremely low birth weight babies. The Washington State Department of Health, Children with Special Health Care Needs Program funds these activities.

Critical Elements of Care for Low Birth Weight Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Graduate

• Low Birth Weight Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Graduate (1998, revised 2002) – entire document, 634 KB
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Companion parent materials available:

• Watching Your Low Birth Weight Child Grow (Parent Tips)  
  Fairly detailed text with information from infancy through 3 years of age.
  
  
• Was Your Baby Born Early? Was Your Baby Born Small? 
  Simpler, shorter message, designed for families who may not choose to get child health and development information by extensive reading. 3 pages.

Extremely Low Birth Weight Supplement to the Low Birth Weight Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Graduate Critical Elements of Care (2004) – entire document, 354 KB

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Quality-of-Care Indicators for the Neurodevelopmental Follow-Up of Very Low Birth Weight Children: Results of an expert panel process. Abstract

Wang CJ et al. Pediatrics. 117(6):2080-2092. 

Indicators covering follow-up care for VLBW infants.   Includes recommendations for neurodevelopmental screening, ophthalmologic and audiology assessment with specific age recommendations.

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