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This is the eighth edition of the Recommended Standards for Newborn ICU Design. It contains substantive changes in recommendations for patient room size and feeding preparation areas, and a number of refinements of previous Recommended Standards with respect to family space, hand hygiene, lighting and other aspects of the newborn intensive care unit (NICU) design.
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White, R., Smith, J., Shepley, M. et al. Recommended standards for newborn ICU design, eighth edition. J Perinatol 33 (Suppl 1), S2–S16 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/jp.2013.10
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