Table 1.
Unit characteristics
| Turku | Uppsala | Danderyd | Huddinge | Tallinn MH | Tartu MH | Como | Madrid | Drammen | Bergen | Tromsø | Indicated by gray | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tallinn PICU | Tartu PICU | |||||||||||
| Tallinn stepdown unit | Tartu stepdown unit | |||||||||||
| Level of care | III B | III B | IIIA | III B | IIIA | II | III A | III C | III A | III B | III B | |
| IIIB | IIIC | |||||||||||
| II | II | |||||||||||
| Admissions per year | 638 | 414 | 1031 | 646 | 479 | 411 | 210 | 401 | 468 | 326 | >500 | |
| 150 | 135 | 935 | ||||||||||
| 598 | 412 | |||||||||||
| Opportunity to stay overnight in the unit | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| No | No | |||||||||||
| Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| Single‐family rooms | 1 | 11 | 12 | 15 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 3 | 2 | <50% |
| 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 4–10 | 8 | |||||||||||
| Permanent beds for parents in infant's room | 0 | 20 (100) | 12 (86) | 15 (100) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 (100) | 0 | 3 (20) | 100% |
| 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 10 (100) | 0 | |||||||||||
| Other beds in the unit for parents | 1 | 20 | 24 | 30 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 6 | 100% |
| 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 25 | 18 | |||||||||||
| Beds outside the unit for parents | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 20 | |
| 0 | 9 | |||||||||||
| 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Barrier for skin‐to‐skin contact always or frequently | Chest tube | Ventilator, chest tube | UC, CPAP, lack of privacy, unit daily routine | Ventilator, chest tube, PT | Ventilator, chest tube, UC, arteria, PT | Ventilator, chest tube | ||||||
| Arterial line, CPAP | UC, Arterial line, unit daily routine |
MH = Maternity hospital; PICU = Paediatric intensive care unit; UC = Umbilical catheter; PT = Phototherapy.
The highlighted grey colour is explained in the last column.