title: New benchmarks offer insight into neonatal practice patterns.
abstract: Reducing practice variation in clinically complex patient populations is one of the biggest challenges in medicine. Paidos Health Management Services has released a fascinating nationwide review of more than 13,000 premature and other medically complex newborns. The report--an invaluable benchmarking tool--demonstrates that variation often leads to less-than-optimal outcomes for newborns and unnecessary costs to the health care system.
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007363:Intensive Care Units, Neonatal / Q000592:standards*; D009518:New York; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D018805:Sepsis / Q000628:therapy