Centro Hospitalar e Universitario de Coimbra Reports Findings in Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (Impact of a qualitative assessment approach for neonatal abstinence syndrome management: experience of a European reference center).

A report from Centro Hospitalar e Universitario de Coimbra in Portugal discusses the management of neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) using a qualitative assessment approach. The study compared this approach with the Eat, Sleep, Console (ESC) method and found a significant reduction in the use of drug therapy. The research showed a decrease in the incidence rate of NAS over the study period, highlighting the effectiveness of the qualitative assessment in identifying at-risk neonates. [Extracted from the article]