An innovative postnatal risk assessment and corresponding care pathways in Preventive Child Healthcare.
Minke R C van MindeJacqueline LagendijkHein RaatEric A P SteegersMarlou L A de KroonPublished in: Journal of advanced nursing (2021)
PCHC offers a unique opportunity to recognize and address risk factors for growth and development in children and to implement care pathways. Effective and widely implemented risk assessments in antenatal and PCHC are scarce. To our knowledge, this kind of evidence-based postnatal risk assessment has not been implemented in PCHC before and seizes the opportunity to prevent catch-up growth and its long-term effects.