Reducing Unplanned Extubations in a Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: The Elusive Benchmark.

Unlabelled: Unplanned extubation (UE) is a common adverse event in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). At our level IV NICU, we initiated a quality improvement project in 2012 to reduce UE rates from 7.47 to below 100 intubated days.