Quality Improvement Initiative to Improve the Screening Rate of Retinopathy of Prematurity in Outborn Neonatal Intensive Care Graduates.

OBJECTIVE

To improve the screening rate of Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) in the outborn neonatal intensive care unit, using the quality improvement method.

METHODS

40 neonatal nurses, 89 parents from an outborn neonatal intensive care unit of a tertiary-care hospital were included in the study between May 2017 and March 2018. Universal sampling method was used.

RESULTS

In 345 neonates, ROP screening rate increased from 10.7% in the pre-intervention phase to 45.5% and 87.3% in the intervention and post-intervention phase, respectively.

CONCLUSION

Point of care quality improvement (POCQI) method can be effectively used to improve ROP screening rate in outborn neonates.