Physiological stress responses in infants at 29-32 weeks' postmenstrual age during clustered nursing cares and standardised neurobehavioural assessments.
Leesa G AllinsonLinda DenehyLex William DoyleAbbey L EelesJennifer A DawsonKatherine J LeeAlicia J SpittlePublished in: BMJ paediatrics open (2017)
Standardised neurobehavioural assessments are associated with less physiological stress than clustered nursing cares in infants aged 29-32 weeks' postmenstrual age, and are therefore possible without causing undue physiological disturbance in medically stable infants.