International Clinical Outcomes for Neonatals | KK Women's and Children's Hospital

Our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is the largest facility in Singapore that treats premature babies and infants, including those referred from other hospitals.

KKH has one of the lowest mortality rates in the world, at 1.99 per 1,000 live births. This outcome has been made possible by close coordination between our perinatal and neonatal teams to manage high-risk pregnancies and deliveries and extend timely and advanced neonatal care to the newborn.

The Vermont Oxford Network(VON) is a nonprofit voluntary collaboration of health care professionals working together to change the landscape of neonatal care. The aim is to improve the quality, safety and value-of-care for newborn infants and their families through a coordinated programme of data-driven quality improvement, education and research. To-date, there are over 1200 NICUs in the network globally.

KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital Department of Neonatology has been part of the VON Very Low Birth Weight (VLBW) database since 1998. The VLBW database include data from all live-born infants whose birth- weight is less than or equal to 1500grams or whose gestational age is less than or equal to 29weeks and 6days, admitted to our unit within 28days of birth without having first gone home. In 2023, 1087 centers submitted data on 54,925 VLBW infants.

VON serves as a neutral, independent party in analyzing data for our member centers and facilitating voluntary benchmarking activities. The databases are used to provide comprehensive, confidential reports that serve as a critical foundation for local quality improvement projects for participating centers.

Conclusion

Our aim is to be within the best quartile for all Key-Performance Measures and we trend our own performance over the years.

We institute quality improvement initiatives when we review that we are not within the best quartile.

Neonatology - Vermont Oxford Network - International Benchmarking