Cutting into the NICU: Improvements in Outcomes for Neonates with Surgical Conditions.

Publication/Presentation Date

10-1-2024

Abstract

The Children's Hospitals Neonatal Consortium (CHNC), established in 2010, seeks to improve care for infants with medically and surgically complex conditions who are cared for in level IV regional children's hospital NICUs across North America. Through patient-level individual data collection, comparative benchmarking, and multicenter quality improvement work, CHNC has contributed to knowledge and improved outcomes, leveraging novel collaborations between and across institutions. Focusing on antenatal and inpatient care for infants with surgical conditions including congenital diaphragmatic hernia, gastroschisis, and necrotizing enterocolitis, we summarize the progress made in these infants' care. We highlight the ways in which CHNC has enabled multidisciplinary and multicenter collaborations through the facilitation of diagnosis-specific focus groups, which enable comparative observations of outcomes through quality improvement and research initiatives. Finally, we review the importance of postbirth hospitalization needs of these infants and the application of telemedicine in this population.

Volume

25

Issue

10

First Page

634

Last Page

634

ISSN

1526-9906

Disciplines

Business Administration, Management, and Operations | Health and Medical Administration | Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods

PubMedID

39349417

Department(s)

Administration and Leadership

Document Type

Article

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