Quality Improvement, An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology

Description

The Guest Editors have collaborated on a state-of-the-art presentation of current clinical reviews on Quality in Neonatal Care. Top experts have prepared articles in the following areas: Standardizing Practices: How and why to standardize, using checklists, measuring variation; Health Informatics and Patient Safety; Using Statistical Process Control to Drive Improvement in Neonatal Care; Improving Value in Neonatal Intensive Care; Culture and Context in Quality of Care: Improving Teamwork and Resilience; Has Quality Improvement Improved Neonatal Outcomes; National Quality Measures in Perinatal Care; Perinatal and Obstetric Quality Initiatives; Family Involvement in Quality Improvement; Perinatal Quality Improvement: A Global Perspective; Delivery Room Care / Golden Hour; Respiratory Care and Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia; Reducing Incidence of Necrotizing Enterocolitis; Alarm Safety and Alarm Fatigue; and Patient Safety: Reducing Unplanned Extubations. Readers will come away with the clinical information they need improve quality in the NICU.

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Table of Contents

Clinics in Perinatology

Quality Improvement

Foreword: Quality Improvement: The Journey Continues!

Preface: Improving Quality Improvement in Neonatal-Perinatal Care

Has Quality Improvement Really Improved Outcomes for Babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit?

National Quality Measures in Perinatal Medicine

The Hard Work of Improving Outcomes for Mothers and Babies: Obstetric and Perinatal Quality Improvement Initiatives Make a Difference at the Hospital, State, and National Levels

Eliminating Undesirable Variation in Neonatal Practice: Balancing Standardization and Customization

Context in Quality of Care: Improving Teamwork and Resilience

Family Involvement in Quality Improvement: From Bedside Advocate to System Advisor

Improving Neonatal Care: A Global Perspective

Using Health Information Technology to Improve Safety in Neonatal Care: A Systematic Review of the Literature

Improving Value in Neonatal Intensive Care

Using Statistical Process Control to Drive Improvement in Neonatal Care: A Practical Introduction to Control Charts

Creating a Highly Reliable Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Through Safer Systems of Care

Tackling Quality Improvement in the Delivery Room

Reducing Incidence of Necrotizing Enterocolitis

Using Quality Improvement Tools to Reduce Chronic Lung Disease Alarm Safety and Alarm Fatigue

Author Information

By Munish Gupta, MD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA and Heather C. Kaplan, MD, MSCE, Attending Neonatologist, Neonatology and Pulmonary Biology, Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics