Neonatal transport for convalescing infants: occurrence and barriers reported by providers
Lindsay S Womack-Martenson, Susan E Manning, Angela Rohan, Lisa Romero, Shanna Cox, Wanda D Barfield, Charlan D Kroelinger · 2026
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Womack-Martenson and colleagues survey in 2026 how often recovering newborns are moved from intensive care back to lower-level nurseries, a practice called back-transport, and what blocks it. Such moves free intensive care beds for the sickest infants.
The team analyzed a spring 2025 national survey of United States health professionals, keeping 256 pediatricians and nurse practitioners who care only for children. Just one in five said back-transport often happens when it is medically appropriate. The largest group said it happens only occasionally, and nearly a quarter said rarely or never. The barriers named most often were payment and reimbursement problems, parent preference, and missing transfer agreements between hospitals. A quarter of providers were unsure what the barriers even were, which the authors read as a gap in awareness.
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| CREATOR | Lindsay S Womack-Martenson, Susan E Manning, Angela Rohan, Lisa Romero, Shanna Cox, Wanda D Barfield, Charlan D Kroelinger |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 8 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |