Vermont Oxford Network, Our aim is to be in among the best quartile for all serious morbidities and we have achieved this in several of our morbiditie

The Vermont Oxford Network is a non-profit voluntary collaboration of health care professionals. Established in 1987, it is dedicated to improving the quality and safety of medical care for newborn infants and their families. It does this by maintaining two databases that contain information about the care and outcomes of high-risk newborn infants. To date, there are over 600 Neonatal Intensive Care Units in the network from hospitals around the world.

The KK Women’s and Children's Hospital Department of Neonatology has been part of the Vermont Oxford Network since 1998. We participate in the Very Low Birth Weight (VLBW) database, which includes data from all live-born infants whose birth weight is between 401 and 1500grams or whose gestational age is between 22 weeks till 29 weeks and 6 days. We are also currently looking at the health and developmental status at 2 years adjusted age of extremely low birth weight (ELBW) infants born in KKH, who survived until hospital discharge and are benchmarking our outcomes with the Vermont Oxford Network follow-up cohort.

Our aim is to be in among the best quartile for all serious morbidities and we have achieved this in several of our morbidities. For the year 2005, we were in the best quartile for chronic lung disease, severe intraventricular haemorrhage (IVH) and coagulase negative staphylococcal infection. Our mortality rates are also low and in the best quartile for year 2005.

The Vermont Oxford Network data shows that standard of care in KKH Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is high and among the best in the world.