Membership and Related
A core business of the National Perinatal Information Center/Quality Analytic Services (NPIC/QAS) is its membership services.  Annually, NPIC/QAS provides comparative benchmarking information to perinatal centers across the country. Member hospitals submit clinical and financial data (discharge abstract/UB 92), which is combined to create the Perinatal Center Data Base (PCDB).  Since 1985, the PCDB has captured over 16 million discharges and is now one of the largest repositories for hospital based perinatal clinical and financial discharge data.    » Learn More

Evaluation and Research
NPIC/QAS has expertise in the design and implementation of formative and summative evaluation related to the organization, effectiveness and cost of health service programs.  Evaluation activities include the development of quantitative and qualitative data collection instruments, as well as data collection and analysis.  Current projects include substance abuse prevention and treatment programs as well as efforts to integrate HIV risk reduction with behavioral health treatment.  Each evaluation is designed to monitor and measure program activities in a manner that optimizes the usefulness of the data for program staff and consumers.     » Learn More