11 Months – 11 Topics
With the campaign “11 Months – 11 Topics”, launched in 2016, EFCNI’s social media and online communication focuses from February to December on one newborn health standard topic. They correspond to the eleven main subjects of the European Standards of Care for Newborn Health. Every month, the corresponding topic is explained by sharing related publications, news, interviews or guest articles.
The intention of “11 Months – 11 Topics” is to reach out explicitly to health professionals and policy makers, but also to lay persons who are to benefit from the dissemination of the standards in the long run, namely the preterm babies and their parents, relatives, and friends. With this campaign, extensive information and best practice examples are shared in order to raise awareness of the need for standards.
Every year there have been different repetitive components, which were supplemented by up-to-date information, e.g. research articles.
Here you find an overview of the topics which are featured monthly:
- February: Data collection and documentation
- March: Birth and transfer
- April: Follow-up and continuing care
- May: NICU design
- June: Medical care and clinical practice
- July: Ethical decision-making and palliative care
- August: Nutrition
- September: Education and training
- October: Patient safety and hygiene practice
- November: Infant- and family-centred developmental care
- December: Care procedures
In 2019, the campaign now enters its 4th year. It provides new features like an overview on the standard topics, whole sets of standards for download as well as selected standards “in brief”. Focusing on the monthly topic, e.g. “Birth & transfer”, we highlight one of the newly released standards in this field. In the “standard in brief” you find the most important details like the benefits, key components, practical steps, target groups, and much more simply at a glance.
The following articles and features have been published so far:
Data collection and documentation (February)
- Set of standards in the field of “Data collection & documentation”
- Overview of the standard topics at a glance
- Standard for “Accessibility of information” in “brief”
- Article about “Collecting quality data is key: registries of babies treated for Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) can improve health, care, and science”
- Short overview about the RECAP preterm Cohort Platform (Facebook)
- Neonatal real world data for research purposes – what is the parents’ view?
- Parental view on cluster randomised controlled trials in newborn babies
- The demand on Data collection and documentation in the Call to Action for Newborn Health
Birth and transfer (March)
Follow-up and continuing care (April)
- Set of standards in the field of “Follow-up and continuing care”
- Overview of the standard topics at a glance
- Standard for “Motor and neurological follow-up assessment” in “brief”
- Article about the RECAP cohorts (part 1: Estonia)
- Article about the RECAP cohorts (part 2: UK and Ireland)
- The demand on “Follow-up and continuing care” in the Call to Action for Newborn Health
- Article about the first Romanian follow-up centre for preterm children
NICU design (May)
- Set of standards in the field of “NICU design”
- Overview of the standard topics at a glance
- Standard for “Core principles of NICU design to promote family-centred care” in “brief”
- Report about the visit of Asociatia Prematurilor at the hospitals of “Kliniken Dritter Orden gGmbH” in Munich and Passau
- Article by Dr Atle Moen on the NICU of the future
- The demand on “NICU design” in the Call to Action for Newborn Health in Europe
Medical care and clinical practice (June)
- Set of standards in the field of “Medical care and clinical practice”
- Overview of the standard topics at a glance
- Standard for “Postnatal support of transition and resuscitation” in “brief”
- Article by Professor Bührer (Germany) on “Research on Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) in preterm babies”
- Current activities of the European Society for Paediatric Research (ESPR)
- Article about the CARE-ROP study
Ethical decision-making and palliative care (July)
- Set of standards in the field of “Ethical decision-making and palliative care”
- Overview of the statements of the standards at a glance
- Article Ethical, Legal, and Religious Aspects at the Border of Viability (publication in frontiers in Pediatrics)
- Standard on ‘Palliative care’ in brief
- Interview with Dr Fauzia Paize on perinatal palliative care
Nutrition (August)
- Set of standards in the field of ‘Nutrition’
- Overview of the statements of the standards at a glance
- Interview with Professor Schlösser on human milk banks
- EFCNI Academy workshops on the setup and organisation of human milk banks (in German)
- Interview with Professor Nadja Haiden on parenteral nutrition for ill and preterm infants
- Standard on ‘Providing mother’s own milk (MOM) for preterm and ill term infants’ in brief
Education and training (September)
- Set of standards in the field of “Education and training”
- Overview of the statements of the standards at a glance
- Standard on “The role of simulation in education and training in neonatal care” in brief
- Summary about the 3rd Congress of joint European Neonatal Societies (jENS) in Maastricht
- Social media post about EFCNI’s new cooperation with SIMCharacters
Patient safety and hygiene practice (October)
Infant- and family-centred developmental care (November)
- Set of standards in the field of “Infant- and family-centred developmental care”
- Overview of the statements of the standards at a glance
- Standard on “Family access” in brief
- Article on a study about single-family rooms vs. open-bay unit and the differences on the psychological well-being of parents of very preterm babies
Care procedures (December)
Video interviews on newborn health topics
In 2017, we launched a series of video interviews with the Chairs of the 11 Topic Expert Groups as part of the 11 months – 11 topics campaign.
