Baby, It’s Cold Outside: A Quality Improvement Study On Unintended Neonatal Hypothermia on Transport.

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Aim: To decrease the percentage of unintended hypothermia for transported neonates. Population: All neonates < 29 days of age transported by a Neonatal-Pediatric Critical Care Transport Team. The Critical Care Transport Team submits data to the GAMUT database. From 2015-2017 the programs rate of unintended neonatal hypothermia increased above the average GAMUT data for unintended neonatal hypothermia (see table) Goal: To decrease the percent of unintended hypothermia to 8%, It was felt that this was an obtainable goal for the year 2017 and represented more than a 50% decrease …