The Vermont Oxford Network (VON) is a non-profit, global voluntary collaboration of health care workers dedicated to improving quality and outcomes in neonatal care. The aim is to improve the quality, safety and value of care for newborn infants and their families through a coordinated programme of data-driven quality improvement, education and research. To date, there are over 1000 Neonatal Intensive Care Units in the network from hospitals around the world. The VON databases hold critical information on more than 1.5 million infants.
The KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital Department of Neonatology has been part of the Vermont Oxford Network Very Low Birth Weight (VLBW database) since 1998. The VLBW database include data from all live born infants whose birth weight is less than or equal to 1500 grams or whose gestational age is less than or equal to 29 weeks and 6 days who are admitted to our unit within 28days of birth without having first gone home. In 2022, 1086 centers submitted data on 56,180 VLBW infants.
The Vermont Oxford Network serves as a neutral, independent party in analyzing data for our member centers and facilitating voluntary benchmarking activities. The databases are used to provide comprehensive, confidential reports that serve as a critical foundation for local quality improvement projects for participating centers.
Our aim is to be within the best quartile for all Key Performance Measures. We also trend our own performance over the years.
We institute quality improvement initiatives when we review that we are not within the best quartile.
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