Prenatal Core Measures: Igniting Development of an Innovative Tool Using the Electronic Medical Record

Abstract

In 2010, the Joint Commission developed perinatal core measures. One measure is exclusive breast milk feeding. No national benchmarking systems existed for gathering or comparing institutional data. The purpose of the project was to demonstrate how the electric medical record could be used for data collection, quality improvement, and benchmarking this nurse-sensitive indicator. Although other initiatives were used to meet the core measure, the focus of this project was the electronic medical record and data collection.