Sharon Chow, University of New South Wales Sydney, anznn@unsw.edu.au
The Australian and New Zealand Neonatal Network (ANZNN) is a collaborative network that monitors the care of high risk newborn infants by pooling data to provide quality assurance for this resource consuming care. The Network was established in 1994 under the recommendation of the National Health and Medical Research Council's (NHMRC) Expert Panel on Perinatal Morbidity.
Since its establishment the Network has developed a minimum data set and implemented a data collection that monitors the mortality and morbidity of infants admitted to neonatal intensive care units across Australia and New Zealand.
Every neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in the two countries has been contributing data since inception. Today, participation extends to every special care unit in New Zealand, and an increasing number of Australian special care units.
Every year, over 12,000 newborns are admitted to a participating neonatal unit in Australia and New Zealand and meet one or more of the following ANZNN registration criteria:
- Born at less than 32 weeks gestation, or
- Weighed less than 1,500 grams at birth, or
- Received assisted ventilation including intermittent positive pressure ventilation (IPPV) or continuous positive airways pressure (CPAP) or high flow nasal cannulae for four or more consecutive hours, or died while receiving mechanical ventilation prior to four hours of age, or
- Received major surgery (surgery that involved opening a body cavity), or
- Received therapeutic hypothermia.
- Feedback to contributing clinicians
- Reported in Annual Report
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Australian Capital Territory
- The Canberra Hospital
New South Wales
- Blacktown Hospital
- Campbelltown Hospital
- Gosford Hospital
- John Hunter Children’s Hospital
- Liverpool Hospital
- Manning Rural Referral Hospital (Taree)
- Nepean Hospital
- Royal Hospital For Women
- Royal North Shore Hospital
- Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
- St George Hospital
- Sydney Children's Hospital
- Tamworth Rural Referral Hospital
- The Children's Hospital At Westmead
- The Maitland Hospital
- Wagga Wagga Rural Referral Hospital
- Westmead Hospital
- Wollongong Hospital
Northern Territory
- Alice Springs Hospital
- Royal Darwin Hospital
Queensland
- Bundaberg Hospital
- Cairns Base Hospital
- Gold Coast University Hospital
- Logan Hospital
- Mackay Base Hospital
- Mater Mothers’ Hospital
- Redcliffe Hospital
- Royal Brisbane & Womens Hospital
- Sunshine Coast University Hospital
- The Townsville Hospital
South Australia
- Flinders Medical Centre
- Lyell McEwin Hospital
- Womens And Childrens Hospital
Tasmania
- Royal Hobart Hospital
Victoria
- Mercy Hospital For Women
- Monash Medical Centre - Clayton Campus
- Royal Children's Hospital
- Royal Women's Hospital
- Sunshine Hospital
- The Northern Hospital
Western Australia
- King Edward Memorial Hospital
- Perth Children’s Hospital
New Zealand
- Auckland City Hospital
- Christchurch Women's Hospital
- Dunedin Hospital
- Middlemore Hospital
- Waikato Hospital
- Wellington Women's Hospital
- Taranaki Base Hospital
- Tauranga Hospital
- Rotorua Hospital
- Timaru Hospital
- Nelson Hospital
- Whanganui Hospital
- Southland Hospital
- Hutt Hospital
- Gisborne Hospital
- Whangarei Hospital
- Palmerston North Hospital
- Whakatane Hospital
- Hawkes Bay Hospital
- Wairau Hospital
- North Shore Hospital
- Waitakere Hospital
ACT Health HREC (ETH.11.09.1009)
Child and Adolescent Health Service HREC (1767EP)
Mater Health Services HREC (HREC/14/MHS/11)
Mercy Health HREC (HREC R09/46)
HREC of Northern Territory Department of Health and Menzies School of Health Research (09/100)
Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital HREC (HREC/09/QRBW/313)
Royal Children's Hospital HREC (29130)
Royal Women's Hospital HREC (09/52)
Monash Health HREC (09315B)
Townsville Hospital and Health Service (HREC/09/QTHS/122)
Women's and Children's Health Network (HREC/2244/02/2019)
Health and Disability Ethics Committees, NZ (MEC/10/13/EXP)