Leslie W Young, Songthip T Ounpraseuth, Stephanie L Merhar, Zhuopei Hu, Alan E Simon, Andrew A Bremer, Jeannette Y Lee, Abhik Das, Margaret M Crawford, Rachel G Greenberg, P Brian Smith, Brenda B Poindexter, Rosemary D Higgins, Michele C Walsh, Ward Rice, David A Paul, Jessie R Maxwell, Sucheta Telang, Camille M Fung, Tanner Wright, Anne Marie Reynolds, Devon W Hahn, Julie Ross, Jennifer M McAllister, Moira Crowley, Sophie K Shaikh, Karen M Puopolo, Lori Christ, Jaime Brown, Julie Riccio, Kara Wong Ramsey, Akshatha, Erica F Braswell, Lauren Tucker, Karen R McAlmon, Krishna Dummula, Julie Weiner, Jessica R White, Meghan P Howell, Sarah Newman, Jessica N Snowden, Lori A Devlin
BACKGROUND: Although clinicians have traditionally used the Finnegan Neonatal Abstinence Scoring Tool to assess the severity of neonatal opioid withdrawal, a newer function-based approach - the Eat, Sleep, Console care approach - is increasing in use. Whether the new approach can safely reduce the time until infants are medically ready for discharge when it is applied broadly across diverse sites is unknown. METHODS: In this cluster-randomized, controlled trial at 26 U...
June 22, 2023: New England Journal of Medicine