Abstract
Background: Approximately 1 in 10 babies is born prematurely each year in the United States. Many graduates of the NICU will require chronic care management after discharge, with needs for frequent primary care visits, multispecialty care, complex pharmaceutical and dietary regimens, and community- based early intervention services particularly if they are extremely preterm or had rough NICU course. Our NICU discharge process did not include routine notification of primary care physicians (PCP). We undertook a longitudinal QI project aimed at initiating a two way communication with the receiving physician in …
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