Quality Improvement Initiative to Improve the Screening Rate of Retinopathy of Prematurity in Outborn Neonatal Intensive Care Graduates
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Date
2018-09
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Indian Academy of Pediatrics
Abstract
Objective: To improve the screening rate of Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) in theoutborn neonatal intensive care unit, using the quality improvement method. Methods:40 neonatal nurses, 89 parents from an outborn neonatal intensive care unit of a tertiary-carehospital were included in the study between May 2017 and March 2018. Universal samplingmethod was used. Results: In 345 neonates, ROP screening rate increased from 10.7%in the pre-intervention phase to 45.5% and 87.3% in the intervention and post-interventionphase, respectively. Conclusion: Point of care quality improvement (POCQI) methodcan be effectively used to improve ROP screening rate in outborn neonates.
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Counselling, Neonatal nurses, Outcome, PDSA
Citation
Mehta Parth, Srivastava Sushil, Aggrohiya Divyansh, Garg Aanchal. Quality Improvement Initiative to Improve the Screening Rate of Retinopathy of Prematurity in Outborn Neonatal Intensive Care Graduates. Indian Pediatrics. 2018 Sep; 55(9): 780-783