Health Care

Neonatal Intensive Care Units

Hospital units providing continuing surveillance and care to acutely ill newborn infants.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

Hospital units providing continuing surveillance and care to acutely ill newborn infants.

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Synonyms

13 entry terms
  • ICU, Neonatal
  • Intensive Care Units, Neonatal
  • Neonatal ICU
  • Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
  • Newborn ICU
  • Newborn Intensive Care Unit
  • Newborn Intensive Care Units
  • Newborn Intensive Care Units (NICU)
  • ICU, Newborn
  • ICUs, Neonatal
  • ICUs, Newborn
  • Neonatal ICUs
  • Newborn ICUs

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Aspects Covered

10 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, supply & distribution, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

check also tags HUMANS & INFANT, NEWBORN

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History Note

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Previous Indexing

  • Infant, Newborn (1966-1981)
  • Intensive Care Units (1966-1981)

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Tree Number

  1. N02.278w.388.493w.390w.380w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Neonatal Intensive Care Units. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D007363. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D007363
  2. Neonatal Intensive Care Units. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonatal_intensive_care_unit
  3. Neonatal Intensive Care Units. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9008292