Quality is always linked to capabality and result out put. Number of Intact survivals devided by number of admission is the indicater of quality if Nicu.

I think there are lots of indicators you could use.

Number of admission rate, morbidity rates (infections, BPD etc) and mortality rate to mention a few.

NICU indicators measuring effectiveness and efficiency of care provided by the hospital specially in NICUs.this is one of the outcome measures. Among these is NICU mortality

rate :Nominator /Number of Deaths within NICUs patient census from mortality log book divided by Denominator/Total Number of NICUs discharged patients

(including the deaths) from discharge register. The data will be recorded as proportion and have to be done monthly

Besides from death, neonatal morbidities in VLBW (benchmarking with the Spanish network SEN1500), we also use Temperature on admission and nutricional z scores (weight, lenght and cephalic circumference) at discharge. And use of breast milk at discharge.