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Outcomes of neonatal intensive care
EDITOR,--Christine Sanderson and D M B Hall support the concept of improving the availability of data on the outcome of neonatal intensive care.1 Their suggestion that this can best be achieved by each unit employing "someone trained in counselling, child development and psychological assessment to follow up its graduates" seems, however, to be against the current trend.
The Audit Commission initiated this debate in the report Children First after being unable to obtain even the most straightforward population based data on outcomes.2 It suggested that simple information (Is the child blind? Is the child deaf?) should be collected routinely for all babies who had received intensive care. The report mentioned by Sanderson and Hall was an attempt by the relevant professional groups to reach consensus on both what should be included in such a minimum dataset and the optimum timing of the collection of data.3 To fulfil the challenge issued
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