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J Prim Care Community Health. 2017 Apr;8(2):94-96. doi: 10.1177/2150131916670067. Epub 2016 Sep 22.

"Same Room, Safe Place".

Journal of primary care & community health

Nikki Keene Woods

Affiliations

  1. 1 Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, USA.

PMID: 27659962 PMCID: PMC5932658 DOI: 10.1177/2150131916670067

Abstract

There are many different professional stances on safe sleep and then there is the reality of caring for a newborn. There is a debate among professionals regarding safe sleep recommendations. The continum of recommendations vary from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Safe Sleep Guidelines to the bed-sharing recommendations from the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory. The lack of consistent and uniform safe sleep recommendations from health professionals has been confusing for families but has more recently raised a real professional ethical dilemma. Despite years of focused safe sleep community education and interventions, sleep-related infant deaths are on the rise in many communities. This commentary calls for a united safe sleep message from all health professionals to improve health for mothers and infants most at-risk, "Same Room, Safe Place."

Keywords: community health; health promotion; infant safe sleep; patient-centeredness; prevention

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