Quality Improvement
-
QI Toolkits
- Hospital Acquired Infection Prevention (rev. MARCH 2008)
- Improving Initial Lung Function: Early CPAP, Surfactant and Other Means - REV. OCTOBER 2011
- Antenatal Corticosteroid Therapy (rev. OCTOBER 2009)
- Postnatal Steroid Administration (rev. 11-2009)
- Nutritional Support of the VLBW Infant - (rev. DECEMBER 2008)
- Care and Management of the Late Preterm Infant Toolkit (rev. APRIL 2007)
- Delivery Room Management Toolkit (revised July 2011)
- Severe Hyperbilirubinemia Prevention (rev. OCTOBER 2005)
- Prevention of Perinatal Group B Streptococcus Disease Toolkit (rev. AUGUST 2008)
- Prevention of Perinatal HIV Toolkit (rev. SEPTEMBER 2008)
- PQIP Education Committee, Protected
- CPQCC/CCS Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI) Collaborative
- Webcast Recordings
- PQIP Members
- CCS/CPQCC High Risk Infant Follow-up (HRIF) Quality of Care Initiative (QCI)
- Collaborative #2: CPQCC/CCS Breastmilk Nutrition QI Collaborative
- California Association of Neonatologists (CAN) 16th Annual Conference March 5-7, 2010
- CPQCC Members in the News
- Collaborative #3 - Delivery Room Management QI Collaborative
- 2011 NICU QI
Antenatal Corticosteroid Therapy (rev. OCTOBER 2009)
CPQCC Antenatal Corticosteroid Therapy (ANS) Toolkit
Revised October 2009
California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative
ANS
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
- ANS Toolkit Cover Page and Table of Contents (112.1 KB
) - How
to use the CPQCC Anteatal Corticosteroid Therapy (ANS) Toolkit (363.3 KB )(4 pages)
- Perinatal Quality Improvement Panel (PQIP) Roster
2. Rationale
Antenatal
Corticosteroid Therapy Evidence Based Guidelines (129.3 KB ) (6 pages)
3. Benchmarking (256.1 KB
) (7 pages)
4. Problem Identification Worksheets (PIWs)
· Quality Improvement and Performance Improvement
Worksheets (133.4 KB ) (3 pages)
· Antenatal
Systems Assessment. Appropriate
Administration of Antenatal Corticosteroid Therapy: Fishbone Diagram (110.9 KB ) (1 page)
· Antenatal Corticosteroid Therapy Problem Identification
Worksheet – Instructions (89.5 KB ) (1 page)
· Sample Antenatal Corticosteroid Therapy Data Form (103.8 KB ) (1
page)
5. FOCUS PDCA
· FOCUS-PDCA
Process for Antenatal Corticosteroid Administration (148.1 KB ) (14 pages). Adapted from: Caldwell, Chip. Mentoring Strategic Change in Health
Care: An Action Guide. 1995. Wisconsin: ASQC Press.
· FOCUS-PDCA
Handout (57.9 KB ) (1 page)
· Antenatal
Corticosteroid Therapy Implementation Worksheet (46.5 KB ) (1 page)
6. Quality Improvement Examples and References
· Examples
of Hospital-Based Quality Improvement Tools (112.5 KB ) (4 pages)
· Sutter Standard Steroid and Antibiotic Orders for Preterm Labor/Preterm PROM Example (28.1 KB )
· References (60.9 KB ) (2 Pages)