Disparities in NICU quality of care: a qualitative study of family and clinician accounts.

OBJECTIVE: To identify how family advocates and clinicians describe disparities in NICU quality of care in narrative accounts.

STUDY DESIGN: Qualitative analysis of a survey requesting disparity stories at the 2016 VON Quality Congress. Accounts (324) were from a sample of RNs (n = 114, 35%), MDs (n = 109, 34%), NNPs (n = 55, 17%), RN other (n = 4, 1%), clinical other (n = 25, 7%), family advocates (n = 16, 5%), and unspecified (n = 1,