Neonatal hotline telephone network.
By simplifying the process by which telephone contacts are made, improved communications were established between a university-affiliated newborn intensive care center and some of the community hospital nurseries that it serves as a regional resource. Initiation of the improved system of communications was associated with a significant improvement in the survival of infants transferred from the community hospitals to the regional care facility.
D001831:Body Temperature; D006764:Hospitals, Community; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007232:Infant, Newborn, Diseases / Q000401:mortality; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D009725:Nurseries, Hospital; D009820:Ohio; D012007:Rectum; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D012041:Regional Medical Programs; D013689:Telephone; D014187:Transportation of Patients