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Hyperbilirubinemia/Jaundice — Goals and Metrics — Clinical Pathway: All Settings

Neonates with Hyperbilirubinemia/Jaundice Clinical Pathway

Goals

  • Incorporate 2022 AAP Guidance
  • Deliver standardized care to infants with hyperbilirubinemia across the continuum of care
    • E.g. Nursery, Primary Care, ED, Inpatient and ICU care
  • Prevent acute bilirubin encephalopathy
  • Avoid unnecessary ED visits and hospitalization

Metrics

  • The annual rate of infants requiring hospitalization for treatment of hyperbilirubinemia
  • Expect ED visits and hospitalization to decrease due to increased thresholds
  • Reduced ED visits for TSB due to increased outpatient testing ability
  • Hospital LOS
  • % of infants re-hospitalized for phototherapy following initial phototherapy in the nursery or 1st hospitalization after birth hospitalization
  • % Infants requiring ICU care, exchange transfusion
  • % of infants with hemolysis

 

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