The MNCY SCN is helping to advance knowledge on family integrated care in NICUs by sharing results of research and quality improvement initiatives.

Sharing these studies supports understanding of how Alberta FICare improves clinical care, neonatal outcomes, the experience of families with a baby in the NICU, and health system performance.

• Creating Value Through Learning Health Systems: The Alberta Strategic Clinical Network Experience (2022) 
• Alberta Family Integrated Care and Standard Care: A qualitative study of mothers’ experiences of their journeying to home form the neonatal intensive care unit (2022)
• Effects of Alberta Family Integrated Care (FICare) on preterm infant development: Two studies at 2 months and between 6 and 24 months corrected age (2022)
• The work of mothering in the NICU: A critical analysis of Alberta Family Integrated Care parent journals (2022)
• Effectiveness of Alberta FICare on neonatal outcomes: A cluster randomized controlled trial (2022)
• Alberta FICare: From engaged clinicians in a cluster randomized controlled trial to health system partnership in scale and spread across a province (2021; see casebook volume 4, p. 16–19)
• Facilitators and barriers to implementation of Alberta FICare in level II neonatal intensive care units (2021)
• Effectiveness of Alberta FICare on infant length of stay in level II neonatal intensive care units: A cluster randomized controlled trial (2020)
• Does breastfeeding self-efficacy theory apply to mothers of moderate and late preterm infants? A qualitative exploration (2020)