FAST-Home Study

Facilitating safe transition to home for preterm infants - a retrospective observational study

Babies born preterm (before 37 completed weeks of pregnancy) need neonatal care but staying in hospital longer than necessary can be harmful to the baby and stressful and costly for families. There are no set rules about when it is safe for a preterm baby to go home. In this project we are exploring what reasons there are that keep babies in neonatal care.

The FAST Home Study is funded by NIHR Research for Patient Benefit. More information about the study is available on the NIHR website.

People

• The FAST Home Study is led by Shalini Ojha and Lisa Szatkowski (University of Nottingham).
• Sarah Seaton (University of Leicester) provides neonatal epidemiology expertise to the team.