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ReviewJournal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association2025

The role of QI collaboratives in neonatology.

Roopali Bapat, Stephen Pearlman

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Review in Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Standardizing early cerebral palsy detection in high-risk infants: reducing age at diagnosis through a quality improvement initiative.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2026
    Article
  2. Review
  3. Golden Hour perception in a public maternity hospital: challenges and potentialities under a multi-professional team's vision.Revista paulista de pediatria : orgao oficial da Sociedade de Pediatria de Sao Paulo · 2025
    Observational
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Roopali BapatNationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, USA. Roopali.Bapat@nationwidechildrens.org.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2139-936X
Stephen PearlmanChristianaCare, Newark, DE, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3027-8794

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Quality improvement collaboratives (QICs) use their collective experiences from participating centers to accelerate the translation of evidence into practice, resulting in reduced variation and improved clinical outcomes. There are several regional, national, and international QICs in neonatology. In this review, we discuss the framework and evaluate national QICs primarily based in US and share the contributions of selected studies. We found that the QICs in neonatology play a significant role in identification of target topics, developing best practices, improving provider knowledge, building QI capacity, and improving outcomes. The key strengths of QICs are that they produce more generalizable learnings, involve a larger patient population which enhances statistical analysis, and offer resources to smaller institutions. Limitations include institutions contributing unequally to the overall results, difficulty in interpreting results when multiple improvement strategies are applied simultaneously, and the possible lack of academic recognition for individual center leadership.

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NeonatologyQuality ImprovementCooperative BehaviorHumansInfant, NewbornUnited States

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PMID39384615
PMCPMC12069086

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