Hospital Management of Indirect Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia by the Office-Based Physician
Editors: Lawrence F. Nazarian, MD.
Unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia in the newborn is the subject of the Record Review Guidebook prepared by the American Board of Pediatrics that accompanies this issue of Pediatrics in Review. Review of personal medical records will be part of the recertification examination to be given in 1993. This section of the journal focuses on record-keeping to assist our readers with their own patient care and to help them prepare for the examination.
Care of the jaundiced newborn often involves management of a hospitalized patient by a physician who spends most of his or her time in an office away from the hospital. Details on the baby's hospital course are recorded in the nursery chart, but clinical information is often phoned to the office and immediate action may be necessary.
