NQMC Update Service: April 25, 2016 ► Vermont Oxford Network New Developer

NQMC Update Service: April 25, 2016

Vermont Oxford Network New Developer

• Perinatal care: proportion of infants receiving enteral feedings who receive any human milk, with or without fortifier or formula, within 24 hours before discharge, transfer, or death.

• Perinatal care: proportion of infants with gestational age between 22 and 29 completed weeks who were screened for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP).

• Perinatal care: proportion of infants with temperature less than 36 degrees Celsius among those with temperature measured within one hour of admission to the NICU.

• Perinatal care: proportion of infants with temperature measured within one hour of admission to the NICU.

• Perinatal care: proportion of mothers of infants with gestational age between 24 and 33 completed weeks receiving IM or IV corticosteroids (betamethasone, dexamethasone, hydrocortisone) at any time prior to delivery.

• Perinatal care: proportion of nosocomial bacterial infection for eligible infants whose birth weight is between 401 and 1500 grams or whose gestational age is between 22 and 29 weeks.