Table 3 Doctor and Nurses—responding to the questionnaire in NICU and maternity birth centers (n = 439)
From: Current practices in neonatal pain management: a decade after the last Italian survey
Births Centers in Nord Italy | 225 51.3% |
Center Italy | 101 (23.0%) |
South Italy | 113 (25.7%) |
Doctors | 200 (45.6%) |
Nurses | 239 (54.4%) |
Level -II Birth Centres with NICU | 382 (87.0%) |
Level -I Maternity nursery | 57 (13.0%) |
Work shift | |
morning | 196 (50.1%) |
afternoon | 67 (17.7%) |
night | 128 (32.7% |
Pain control according with written guidelines | 337 (76.8%) |
Pain control according with individual initiative | 102 (23.2%) |
Presence of local pain specialist promoting pain management | 168 (38.3%) |