Measuring quality of care in moderate and late preterm infants.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine quality measures for moderate and late preterm (MLP) infants.

Study design

By prospectively analyzing Vermont Oxford Network's all NICU admissions database, we adapted Baby-MONITOR, a composite quality measure for extremely/very preterm infants, for MLP infants. We examined correlations between the adapted MLP quality measure (MLP-QM) in MLP infants and Baby-MONITOR in extremely and very preterm infants.

Result

We studied 376,219 MLP (30-36 weeks GA) and 57,595 extremely/very preterm (25-29 weeks GA) infants from 465 U.S. hospitals born from 2016 to 2020. MLP-QM summary scores in MLP infants had weak correlation with Baby-MONITOR scores in extremely and very preterm infants (r = 0.47). There was weak correlation among survival (r = 0.19), no pneum

SUBMITTER: Salazar EG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9522891 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature