Challenges to Measuring the Quality of Low-Risk Newborns

Regarding “Implicit Review Instrument to Evaluate Quality of Care Delivered by Physicians to Children in Emergency Departments”

“…Observed improvements in one “narrow” measure may not impact another measure; for example, measures to improve asthma and pulmonary care may not result in changes to an organization's central‐line associated blood stream infection rate. The challenge for any of these narrowly defined measures is to include enough information to fully capture the care delivered by a health care profession (Lorch ).…”