Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program (NIDCAP): New frontier for neonatal and perinatal medicine

Heidelise Als

Journal of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine · 2009 · 98 citations · 0 references

Concepts

Abstract

The Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program (NIDCAP) derives from the conceptualization of the preterm infant as a goal-oriented fetus outside of the womb in the evolutionarily-unexpected environment of the newborn intensive