This video will provide a demonstration
of the mPINC 10 steps assessment tool.
The mPINC 10 steps assessment tool helps
to assess a hospital's implementation of
each of the 10 steps to successful
breastfeeding often and simply as the 10
steps using data from CDC's Maternity
Practices and Infant Nutrition and Care
survey or mPINC survey.
This video will demonstrate how to
identify hospital responses to mPINC
survey items to enter into the mPINC 10
stops assessment tool.
This video and tool are intended for
state and local health departments,
hospitals, breastfeeding coalitions, and
institutions and organizations working
with hospitals on quality improvement in
maternity care.
If you are unfamiliar with the tool, be
sure to also watch our mPINC 10 steps
assessment tool overview video to learn
more about the tool's purpose and how to
use findings from the tool.
mPINC data or hospital responses to
mPINC survey items can be found in
three different sources.
One option is to pull data from an
mPINC hospital report.
These reports are sent to hospitals
after they complete an mPINC survey
and are only released to authorized
hospital staff.
Alternatively, if a hospital has not
completed an mPINC survey recently but
still wishes to use the assessment tool,
a blank mPINC survey instrument can
be downloaded from the CDC website and
completed by hospital staff.
Data collected from this questionnaire
can then be used to complete the
assessment.
Another option is to pull data from an
mPINC data set that can be requested
from CDC by state health departments.
For questions related to mPINC data,
please email us at mpinc.cdc.gov
There are two options for entering data
into the tool.
One option is to manually enter data
into the pdf version of the tool.
Another option is to use the fillable
Excel version of the tool.
Both of these options are available to
download from our website.
We will now demonstrate how to identify
data from an mPINC hospital report to
enter into the fillable excel version of
the mPINC 10 steps assessment tool.
We will be using a fictional hospital
for this demonstration.
Please note that while we will be
demonstrating using the tool with a 2020
mPINC hospital report, the mPINC 10 steps
assessment tool can be used with mPINC
hospital reports and data from 2018
onwards.
We will focus on identifying and
entering data for step one.
Let's look at the first competency for
step one which assesses a hospital's
acquisition of infant formula.
To begin, we will first need to identify
where in the mPINC hospital report we
would find the hospital's response to
the acquisition of infant formula survey
item.
This information can be found in the m
PINC item column and the mPINC domain
column.
For example,
to identify our fictional hospital's
response
for the acquisition of infant formula
survey item from the hospital's mPINC
hospital report we will find which m
PINC domain that this competency
corresponds to.
In this case, the competency is found in
the institutional management domain
we would then locate that section in the
mPINC hospital report.
Next, we will look to see which mPINC
item this competency corresponds to.
In this case,
the item indicates how your hospital
acquires infant formula.
We will look within the institutional
management domain section of the
hospital report and find the explanation
that matches the corresponding mPINC
item.
Next we will move within that row
to the answer within the your response
column.
As you can see, our fictional hospital
answered pays fair market price for this
mPINC item.
To enter the identified data into the
mPINC 10 steps assessment tool, we will
move to the hospital response column and
click on the drop down button.
We will choose the corresponding
hospital response determined from the
mPINC hospital report. In this case, our
fictional hospital's response was pays
fair market price.
Please note that some items will not
have a drop down box here. If no drop
down box is present, you'll need to enter
a numerical response for that item.
Once we entered data in the hospital
response column, the information in the
next column, did the hospital select the
ideal response, will populate.
This information will allow us to
determine whether the hospital chose the
ideal response for that competency.
Please note that the final column, did
the hospital select the ideal response,
will already be filled in with either a
yes or no by default.
This column will populate to reflect the
hospital's alignment with the ideal
response once the hospital's response is
entered into the previous column.
We would continue identifying and
entering data for each competency within
each step to complete the assessment.
Once the assessment tool has been
completed, results can be used to help
assess the hospital's implementation of
each of the 10 steps.
To assess the hospital's alignment with
the 10 steps,
look to see if the hospital was in
alignment with the competencies of each
step.
Competencies that were in alignment will
be noted with a yes in the final column.
Competencies that were not an alignment
will be noted with a no in the final
column.
Hospitals might wish to take a closer
look at the competencies in steps that
are not in alignment with the 10 steps
to see where they might consider
improvements.
Finally, please note that this tool does
not correspond to or replace
Baby Friendly USA's on-site assessments
or baby-friendly designation.
For any questions or comments on this
tool, please contact us at mPINC@cdc.gov