Quality Improvement
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QI Toolkits
- Hospital Acquired Infection Prevention
- Improving Initial Lung Function: Surfactant and Other Means
- Antenatal Corticosteroid Therapy
- Postnatal Steroid Administration
- Nutritional Support of the VLBW Infant: Part I
- Nutritional Support of the Very Low Birth Weight Infant Part II
- Care and Management of the Late Preterm Infant Toolkit
- Delivery Room Management of the Very Low Birth Weight (VLBW) Infant Toolkit
- Severe Hyperbilirubinemia Prevention
- Prevention of Perinatal Group B Streptococcus Disease Toolkit
- Prevention of Perinatal HIV Toolkit
- CPQCC/CCS Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI) Collaborative
- Webcast Recordings
- PQIP Meetings
Postnatal Steroid Administration
The California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative (CPQCC) is dedicated to improving quality of perinatal health care through the State. The enclosed document-the fourthCPQCC quality improvement Toolkit directed toward decreasing chronic lung diseaseamong very low birth weight infants-is designed as an all-inclusive package that promotes best practice at the hospital level, based upon hospital-specific data.
The first three CPQCC Toolkits, addressing antenatal steroid administration, improvinginitial lung function: surfactant and other means, and nosocomial infection prevention areavailable through our website: cpqcc.org. This toolkit continues the effort to stimulate self-analysis as the basis for quality improvement efforts, by bringing together all of theessential elements of quality improvement: awareness of authoritative opinion, self-examination of one's own processes and results, and ready access to easily used means to enable change.
We hope that you will have the opportunity to review the Toolkit during the next few months, and you are able to implement the activities described within. Please do nothesitate to contact us with comments and/or questions.
Reproduction for commercial purposes is prohibited. Utilization and copying of the materials to improve the care of pregnant women and their newborns is encouraged with proper citation of source. Your downloading and printing of these materials indicates your acceptance of this rule.
For technical support (or other questions) contact the CPQCC office at (650) 723-5763.
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