NQMC Update Service: February 3, 2014 ▲ The Joint Commission

NQMC Update Service: February 3, 2014

February 3, 2014

New This Week

The Joint Commission

• Perinatal care: percentage of high-risk newborns with staphylococcal and gram negative septicemias or bacteremias. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Perinatal care: percentage of newborns that were fed breast milk only during the newborn's entire hospitalization excluding those whose mothers chose not to breast feed.

• Perinatal care: percentage of newborns that were fed breast milk only during the newborn's entire hospitalization. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Perinatal care: percentage of nulliparous women with a term, singleton baby in a vertex position delivered by cesarean section. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Perinatal care: percentage of patients at risk of preterm delivery at greater than or equal to 24 and less than 32 weeks gestation receiving antenatal steroids prior to delivering preterm newborns. This updates a previously published measure summary.

• Perinatal care: percentage of patients with elective vaginal deliveries or elective cesarean sections at greater than or equal to 37 and less than 39 weeks of gestation completed. This updates a previously published measure summary.