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.
This issue of Clinics in Perinatology, guest edited by Drs. Alan Spitzer and Dan Ellsbury, examines Quality Improvement in Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine.
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 ...
... mortality and morbidity at most gestations.29 However, despite these improved outcomes in the periviable period, significant neonatal morbidity and mortality still exist. When delivery is anticipated in this gestational age window, ...
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This issue is a must-read for perinatologists and neonatologists who need current advances in treastment and interventions to improve the viability of the neonate.
Friedman S, Flidel-Rimon O, Lavie E, et al. ... Li R, Fridinger F, Grummer-Strawn L. Racial/ethnic disparities in public opinion about breastfeeding: the 1999–2000 healthstyles surveys in the United States.
Jobe AH, Bancalari E. Bronchopulmonary dysplasia. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2001;163(7):1723–9. 3. Walsh MC, Wilson-Costello D, Zadell A, et al. Safety, reliability, and validity of a physiologic definition of bronchopulmonary dysplasia ...
Spitzer and colleagues published their study in Clinics In Perinatology (The Pediatrix BabySteps Data Warehouse and the Pediatrix QualitySteps improvement project system—tools for “meaningful use” in continuous quality improvement.
Pfister and colleagues published their study in Clinics in Perinatology ( Quality Improvement in Respiratory Care : Decreasing Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia . Clinics in Perinatology , 2010 ; 37 ( 1 ) : 273+ ) .
This issue is expected to be in high demand, being extremely valuable to both neonatologists and maternal-fetal medicine physicians.