ARTICLES OF INTEREST
Late Preterm and Special Education Needs
Maternal Health
Growing Obesity Increases Perils of Childbearing - The New York Times Online, June 5, 2010
Maternal Health is a Human Right - Amnesty International USA Online
Too Many Women Dying in U.S. While Having Babies - Time Online, March 12, 2010
Patient Safety
Chasing Zero: Winning the War on Healthcare Harm (Parts 1-4) - Discovery Channel Videos
Doctor Leads Quest for Safer Ways to Care for Patients - The New York Times Online, March 8, 2010
Do You Hold Staff Accountable for Safety? - Hospitals and Health Networks Magazine Online, February 2010
Patient Safety Advisory - Patient Safety Authority: Commonwealth of PA, December 2009
Postpartum Hemorrhage (PPH) Carts, Kits, Trays - California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative (CMQCC)
Posters
Pregnant Women and Seat Belts
Pregnancy and Childbirth
Panel Urges New Look at Caesarean Guidelines - The New York Times Online, March 10, 2010
Vaginal Birth After Caesarean: New Insights - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, March 10, 2010
Quality Improvement
Symposium on Quality Improvement to Prevent Prematurity - March of Dimes, October 2009
EVIDENCE-BASED/GUIDELINES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Cochrane Collaboration
Health Services/Technology Assessment Text - AHRQ Guidelines - NIH Consensus Conferences
The Joint Commission
National Academy of Science
National Guideline Clearinghouse
GOVERNMENT
AHRQ - Healthcare 411
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
Food and Drug Administration
Healthy People 2010/2020
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB)
National Institutes of Health
National Library of Medicine
Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS)
PubMed
Team STEPPS™
TRICARE Family Care Center
TRICARE Management Activity
PERFORMANCE MEASURES, QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
AND PATIENT SAFETY
Ambulatory Quality Alliance (AQA)
American College of Physicians
American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS/NSQIP)
American Hospital Association Quality Center (AHA)
American Hospital Association’s Health Research and Educational Trust Quality and Patient Safety (HRET)
American Medical Association Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement (AMA)
American Society for Healthcare Risk Management
American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP)
Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF)
Consumers Advancing Patient Safety (CAPS)
Consumer Assessment of Health Providers and Systems (CAHPS)
ECRI - Medical Device Safety Reports (MDSR)
FDA Patient Safety News
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP)
Institute of Medicine (IOM) – Health Care Quality Initiative
The Joint Commission
Leapfrog Group
Maryland Patient Safety Center
MedQUIC
Medical Errors and Patient Safety (AHRQ)
National Academy for State Health Policy
National Center for Patient Safety (NCPS)
National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention (NCC MERP)
National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF)
National Quality Forum
The National Quality Measures Clearinghouse
Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority - Reporting System (PA-PSRS)
Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP)
Team Performance Plus™
Team STEPPS™
Veterans Administration National Center for Patient Safety (NCPS)
World Health Organization - Patient Safety
PERINATAL RELATED ASSOCIATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology
American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)
American Society for Reproductive Medicine
Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics
Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN)
Drugs and Lactation Database (LactMed)
Food and Nutrition Information Center – Pregnancy
General Information about Pregnancy Exposure Registries
Healthy Women – Pregnancy Resource Center
Infectious Diseases Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology
International Childbirth Education Association
International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO)
International Society for Perinatal Obstetricians
Jacobs Institute of Women's Health
La Leche League International
Lamaze International
March of Dimes
Motherisk
MyMidwife.org
National Association of Childbearing Centers
National Association of Neonatal Nurses (NANN)
National Women's Health Information Center
Postpartum Support International
Society for Gynecologic Investigation
Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine


