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Family-centered care (FCC) is a partnership approach to health care between the family and health care providers (HCP) that is respectful of and responsive to individuals and their families. It has been advocated as the standard of care in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) worldwide; however, the implementation of FCC is inconsistent. This presentation introduces a mixed methods study, which aimed to describe family members' and HCPs' perceptions about interprofessional collaborative FCC in NICUs during the pandemic and identify facilitators and barriers influencing the implementation of FCC in NICUs. First, we observed FCC in five clinical sites. Based on identified gaps, we developed two knowledge dissemination products, including artwork highlighting the importance of FCC and a pamphlet introducing the evidence- based FCC. Second, we distributed online surveys to interprofessional HCPs and received 437 responses. The survey identified significant perception differences between family members and HCPs. Last, we conducted 27 interprofessional individual interviews using Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR). Forty-one implementation determinants across five domains and 25 CFIR constructs were identified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: To compare the effect of noninvasive ventilation (N1V) and standard oxygen therapy on treating acute lung injury (ALI). Methods: A search on PubMed, Embase, Springer, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials and Clinical Trials was carried out up to Nov 2015 for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) with N1V as cases and standard oxygen therapy as controls. Risk ratios and weight mean difference were used for estimation. Results: This meta-analysis included seventeen RCTs. Results showed NIV significantly reduced the intubation rate, length of ICU stay and hospital mortality. The length of hospital stay and 1CU mortality were not different. High heterogeneity was found across the studies of intubation rate. The types of acute respiratory failure might be a source of heterogeneity. Conclusion: Our results suggest that NIV is effective for ALI in reducing the intubation rate, hospital mortality and length of ICU stay than the standard oxygen therapy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]