Percent of neonates with a length of stay greater than 60 days receiving DPT, Hepatitis B, Polio, Hib, and PCV immunizations in adherence with current guidelines.
Measure Specs
General Information
Numerator
Patients from the denominator receiving the following immunizations according to current AAP guidelines:
• DPT (DTP, DPT, DtaP, DTw-P-HbOC, DTwP-HIB, Acel-Imune, Tripedia, Infanrix, Tetramune [DTPH], Tripedia/ActHIB, TriHIBit, Certiva, Immunol)
• HepB (Comvax, Recombivax HB, Engerix-B)
• Polio (IPOL, IPV, OPV, Orimune, Poliovax)
• Hib (PedvaxHIB, HibTITER, ProHIBit [PRP-D], Tetramune [DTPH], Tripedia/ActHIB, TriHIBit, ActHIB, OmniHIB [PRP-T], Comvax)
• PCV (Prevnar, Pneumovax, Pnu-Imune).
Denominator
Neonates with a length of stay greater than 60 days.
Exclusions
Documented parent refusal and mortalities. The developer recommends that the measure be suspended when there are vaccine shortages rather than including vaccine unavailability as an exclusion.
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