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National Quality Measures in Perinatal Medicine
1Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 2716 South Street, Room 10-251, Philadelphia, PA 19146, USA; PolicyLab, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 2716 South Street, Room 10-251, Philadelphia, PA 19146, USA; Center for Perinatal and Pediatric Health Disparities Research, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 2716 South Street, Room 10-251, Philadelphia, PA 19146, USA; Department of Pediatrics, The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 2716 South Street, Room 10-251, Philadelphia, PA 19146, USA; Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 3641 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Abstract:
There are numerous measures of perinatal quality endorsed by national agencies such as the National Quality Forum (NQF). The sheer number of metrics may lead to confusion about what these measures truly assess, and how to interpret variation in these measures across hospitals, health care systems, and geographic regions. This review presents a conceptual model for the numerous validated measures, an overview of the types of measures endorsed for perinatal quality by NQF in 2016, and potential measures absent from endorsement by these national bodies.
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