Yusuf Careema, Sontag Marci K, Miller Joshua, Kellar-Guenther Yvonne, McKasson Sarah, Shone Scott, Singh Sikha, Ojodu Jelili
Association of Public Health Laboratories, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA;
Center for Public Health Innovation at CI International, Littleton, CO 80120, USA;
Int J Neonatal Screen. 2019 Sep 12;5(3):34. doi: 10.3390/ijns5030034. eCollection 2019 Sep.
Newborn screening is a public health program facilitated by state public health departments with the goal of improving the health of affected newborns throughout the country. Experts in the newborn screening community established a panel of eight quality indicators (QIs) to track quality practices within and across the United States newborn screening system. The indicators were developed following iterative refinement, consensus building, and evaluation. The Newborn Screening Technical assistance and Evaluation Program (NewSTEPs) implemented a national data repository in 2013 that captures the quality improvement metrics from each state. The QIs span the newborn screening process from collection of a dried blood spot through medical intervention for a screened condition. These data are collected and analyzed to support data-driven outcome assessments and tracking performance to improve the quality of the newborn screening system.
新生儿筛查是一项由州公共卫生部门推动的公共卫生项目，目标是改善全国受影响新生儿的健康状况。新生儿筛查领域的专家设立了一个由八项质量指标（QIs）组成的小组，以跟踪美国新生儿筛查系统内部及相互之间的质量实践情况。这些指标是经过反复完善、达成共识和评估后制定的。新生儿筛查技术援助与评估项目（NewSTEPs）于2013年实施了一个国家数据存储库，该存储库收集每个州的质量改进指标。这些质量指标涵盖了从采集干血斑到针对筛查出的病症进行医疗干预的整个新生儿筛查过程。收集和分析这些数据以支持基于数据的结果评估并跟踪绩效，从而提高新生儿筛查系统的质量。
