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. 2016 Nov 21;6:37397. doi: 10.1038/srep37397

Table 2. Occurrence of Delivery Room Interventions Before and After Initiation of the Quality Improvement Project.

  Mean before (n) Mean after (n) Odds Ratio 95% Confidence Interval P value
Intubation Rate 14.1% (35) 5.4% (16) 0.345 (0.173, 0.659) <0.001*
Surfactant Use in the Delivery Room 2.8% (7) 1.0% (3) 0.350 (0.058, 1.551) 0.198
Normal Temperature on Admission 78.3% (195) 86.3% (258) 1.741 (1.089, 2.799) 0.017*
Functioning Pulse Oximeter by 2 Minutes after Birth Data not available** 38%(114)

*P < 0.05.

**The use of a pulse oximeter in the delivery room was not documented until after the start of the intervention.