A quality improvement project to improve admission temperatures in very low birth weight infants.

OBJECTIVE: To review the results of a quality improvement (QI) project to improve admission temperatures of very low birth weight inborn infants.

STUDY DESIGN: The neonatal intensive care unit at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital underwent a QI project to address hypothermic preterm newborns by staff education and implementing processes such as polyethylene wraps and chemical warming mattresses. We performed retrospective chart review of all inborn infants with birth weight