Background: Maternal medical care (prenatal and postpartum) involves a set of clinical
interventions addressing risk factors associated with important maternal and infant …

Health care changes continue to challenge providers to reconsider how care is delivered.
Shorter lengths of stay for mothers and newborns in California sparked the creation of a …

Quality improvement and patient safety efforts are a growing focus for perinatal care
providers. This work has developed in response to major public health goals to reduce …

T he Institute of Medicine's landmark Crossing the Quality Chasm(2001) report identified
large gaps between health care that is and that could and should be delivered in the United …

For two decades, the application of quality improvement methods to spread evidencebased
practices and reduce variation in health care delivery has been a health policy priority. 1, 2 …

Objectives To evaluate a large two-phase, statewide quality improvement (QI) collaborative
to decrease non-medically indicated (N-MI) deliveries scheduled between 36 and 38 weeks …

Abstract The Illinois Perinatal Quality Collaborative developed a framework for successfully
engaging teams and implementing statewide obstetric and neonatal quality improvement …

Background After completing a successful quality improvement (QI) initiative to decrease
non-medically indicated scheduled births< 39 weeks in 20 large maternity hospitals, the …

Quality Improvement in Perinatal Medicine and Translation of Preterm Birth Research Findings
into Clinical Care - Clinics in Perinatology Skip to Main Content Clinics in Perinatology Log in …

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement applies a systems-focused, science-based
approach to improving perinatal care. This approach is based on the pioneering work in …