Additional resources

Joint Commission Alerts and Guidelines

Joint Commission Hyperbilirubinemia Guidelines

Joint Commission Sentinel Event Alert 31: Revised guidance to help prevent kernicterus

Joint Commission Sentinel Event Alert 18: Kernicterus threatens healthy newborns

American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Information

News release: Safe & Healthy Beginnings

Safe & Healthy Beginnings: A Resource Toolkit for Hospitals and Physicians’ Offices

Related links

www.Kernicterus.org Website by Dr. Steven Shapiro, Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO

Clinical Practice Guidelines: Management of Hyperbilirubinemia in the Newborn Infant 35 or More Weeks of Gestation PEDIATRICS Vol. 114 No. 1 July 2004, pp 297-316