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Effects of delivery room quality improvement on premature infant outcomes.

CPQCC Publication
TitleEffects of delivery room quality improvement on premature infant outcomes.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2017
AuthorsLapcharoensap W, Bennett MV, Powers RJ, Finer NN, Halamek LP, Gould JB, Sharek PJ, Lee HC
JournalJ Perinatol
Volume37
Issue4
Pagination349-354
Date Published2017 04
ISSN1476-5543
KeywordsBirth Weight, Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia, California, Cerebral Hemorrhage, Delivery Rooms, Enterocolitis, Necrotizing, Female, Gestational Age, Humans, Infant, Infant Mortality, Infant, Extremely Premature, Infant, Newborn, Infant, Very Low Birth Weight, Male, Multivariate Analysis, Pregnancy, Prospective Studies, Quality Improvement, Regression Analysis, Retinopathy of Prematurity
Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Delivery room management interventions have been successfully implemented via collaborative quality improvement (QI) projects. However, it is unknown whether these successes translate to reductions in neonatal morbidity and mortality.

STUDY DESIGN: This was a prospective pre-post intervention study of three nonrandomized hospital groups within the California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative. A collaborative QI model (Collaborative QI) was compared with a single-site QI model (NICU QI) and a non-participant population when implementing evidence-based delivery room practices. The intervention period was between June 2011 and May 2012. Infants born with gestational age between 22 weeks 0 days and 29 weeks 6 days and birth weight ⩽1500 g were included. Outcomes were mortality and select morbidities (bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH), retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) and necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC)). Outcomes were compared between the baseline (January 2010 to May 2011) and post-intervention period (June 2012 to May 2013) within each comparison group.

RESULTS: Ninety-five hospitals were included with 4222 infants in the baseline period and 4186 infants in the post-intervention period. The Collaborative QI group had significantly reduced odds of developing BPD post-intervention (odds ratio (OR) 0.8, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.65 to 0.99) or composite BPD-death (OR 0.83, 95% CI 0.69 to 1.00). In both the Collaborative QI and non-participants there were also reductions in IVH, severe IVH, composite severe IVH-death, severe ROP and composite severe ROP-death.

CONCLUSION: Hospitals dedicated to improving delivery room practices can impact neonatal outcomes.

DOI10.1038/jp.2016.237
Alternate JournalJ Perinatol
PubMed ID28005062