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references: jaundice (hyperbilirubinaemia) in the healthy term infant on the postnatal ward or in the community

References: Jaundice (hyperbilirubinaemia) in the healthy term infant on the postnatal ward or in the community

1. American Academy of Pediatrics. Subcommittee on Hyperbilirubinemia. Management of hyperbilirubinemia in the newborn infant 35 or more weeks of gestation (AAP Clinical Practice Guideline). Pediatrics 2004 July;114(1): 297-316

2. Ip S, Chung M, Kulig J, O’Brien R, et al. An evidence-based review of important issues concerning neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia (Review). Pediatrics 2004 July;114(1): e130-e153

3. Mills JF, Tudehope D. Fibreoptic phototherapy for neonatal jaundice. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2001, Issue 1

4. Blackwell JT. Management of hyperbilirubinemia in the healthy term newborn (Clinical practice Guideline). Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners 2003; 15: 194-8

5. Bhutani VK, Johnson L, Siveri EM. Predicitive ability of a predischarge hour-specific serum bilirubin for subsequent significant hyperbilirubinaemia in healthy term and near-term newborns. Pediatrics 1999;103: 6-14

6. Suresh GK, Clark RE. Cost-effectiveness of strategies that are intended to prevent kernicterus in newborn infants. Pediatrics 2004 July;114(1): 917-24

7. Newman TB, Liljestrand P, Jeremy RJ, Ferriero DM, et al. Outcomes among newborns with total serum bilirubin levels of 25 mg per deciliter or more. New England Journal of Medicine 2006; 354: 1889-1900

8. Ip S, Lau J, Chung M, Kulig J, et al. Hyperbilirubinemia and kernicterus: 50 years later. Pediatrics 2004; 114(1): 263-4

Note: Levels of evidence are quoted in references above; in particular numbers 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7.

Date published: 19 December 2007

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