Quality Indicators to Evaluate Essential Newborn Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.

Background: Strategies to improve neonatal outcomes rely on accurate collection and analyses of quality indicators. Most low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) fail to monitor facility-level indicators, partly because recommended and consistently defined indicators for essential newborn care (ENC) do not exist. This gap prompted our development of an annotated directory of quality indicators.

Implementation of a Standardized Premedication Bundle to Improve Procedure Success for Nonemergent Neonatal Intubations.

Unlabelled: The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends premedication for all nonemergent neonatal intubations, yet there remains significant variation in this practice nationally. We aimed to standardize our unit's premedication practices for improved intubation success and reduced adverse events.

Methods: The study workgroup developed educational material and protocol content.