Iberoamerican Society Neonatal Network

Mission Statement

• To create an Iberoamerican neonatal intensive care network that produces information which will translate into actions, leading to improvement of neonatal-perinatal healthcare at local and regional levels.
• To facilitate and stimulate its members to conduct multidisciplinary collaborative research, the main objective being improving neonatal-perinatal health at the local and regional levels, leading to knowledge of worldwide applicability.

Vision Statement

• To contribute to a substantial reduction of neonatal morbidity and mortality throughout Iberoamerican neonatal intensive care units and the region in the next 10 years.
• To establish a network whose members, within the next three years, will know very well their local conditions thus leading to changes in practice, constantly evaluating outcomes in order to improve the quality of healthcare delivery to the newborn infants under their care.
• To its members to benefit their patients by communicating outcomes of different neonatal units, transferring and incorporating best practice models in a methodical and controlled fashion, assessing outcomes appropriately and continuously.
• To support the members’ freedom and desire to create or participate in network collaborative studies, adequately acknowledging their participation.
• The members are of course free to participate or be members in other networks and can participate in out of network clinical studies if they so decide.

Objectives

• To establish and maintain a truly Iberoamerican neonatal-perinatal database.
• To provide the infrastructure to facilitate knowledge of morbidity and mortality and care provided to newborn infants in the region.
• To facilitate obtaining accurate data leading to information which gets translated into actions that allow the improvement of neonatal-perinatal health at local and regional levels.
• To establish an Iberoamerican network of investigators interested in neonatal-perinatal research.
• To study longitudinally outcomes and variability in medical care, so that, without increasing the costs, improved outcomes are achieved.
• To develop innovative research methods that lead to improvements in the quality of neonatal-perinatal healthcare in each and all of the Iberoamerican countries.