The NAT Initiative Executive Summary delivers background and overview information, results, key findings, and lessons learned from the Newborn Admission Temperature initiative.
The Newborn Admission Temperature (NAT) Initiative was the first TCHMB project to measure outcomes disaggregated by race and ethnicity from hospitals, an important step toward understanding and reducing disparities in perinatal healthcare and health outcomes in Texas. Of particular note are the following findings:
The findings of decreased hypothermia among NICU admissions — in NICUs that consistently reported race and ethnicity disaggregated data — highlight the potential of statewide initiatives for improvement in settings caring for the most vulnerable newborns.
The NAT Initiative identified significant disparities in hypothermia incidence, with newborns of non-Hispanic Black mothers having approximately twice the incidence compared to newborns of non-Hispanic White mothers.
More key findings, data, and conclusions & future directions are available in the NAT Initiative Executive Summary.