Open AccessQuality of Care in US NICUs by Race and Ethnicity
Author(s) -
Erika M. Edwards,
Lucy T. Greenberg,
Jochen Profit,
David Draper,
Daniel Helkey,
Jeffrey D. Horbar
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
pediatrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.611
H-Index - 345
eISSN - 1098-4275
pISSN - 0031-4005
DOI - 10.1542/peds.2020-037622
Subject(s) - medicine , ethnic group , intensive care , birth weight , african american , demography , prospective cohort study , race (biology) , cohort , gestational age , pediatrics , gerontology , pregnancy , intensive care medicine , history , ethnology , surgery , sociology , biology , anthropology , genetics , botany
Summary measures are used to quantify a hospital's quality of care by combining multiple metrics into a single score. We used Baby-MONITOR, a summary quality measure for NICUs, to evaluate quality by race and ethnicity across and within NICUs in the United States.