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Contract All \| Expand All ARTICLES OF INTEREST Adverse Outcome Index (AOI) Clinical: Patient Safety in Obstetrics - MedPedia, November 2011 Revisiting the Perinatal Adverse Outcome Index - Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare, May/June 2011 Perinatal Safety Collaborative Makes Progress in Standardizing Best Practices - Health Care News In-Depth, April 2011 Managing Obstetric Risk: Is Your Labor and Delivery Team Ready? - Modern Medicine, February 2011 In Search of Perinatal Quality Outcome Measures: 1 Hospital’s In-depth Analysis of the Adverse Outcomes Index (abstract) - PubMed.gov, October 2010 Quality in Obstetric Care: Measuring What Matters (abstract) - American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), Sept. 2010 Impact of a Comprehensive Patient Safety Strategy on Obstetric Adverse Events - American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology (AJOG), March 2009 Introduction of Adverse Outcomes Index to Assess Quality of Obstetrical Care in a Wyoming Hospital (abstract) - Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN), June 2008 Impact of CRM-Based Team Training on Obstetric Outcomes and Clinicians’ Patient Safety Attitudes - The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patieny Safety, 2007 Perinatal Safety Initiative: A Collaborative Approach - Premier, Inc. Preterm/Late Preterm 2011 March of Dimes Premature Birth Report Cards by State Inhaled Nitric Oxide in Preterm Infants - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, October 2010 Late Preterm and Special Education Needs Maternal Health Growing Obesity Increases Perils of Childbearing - The New York Times Online, June 5, 2010 Patient Safety 2011 March of Dimes Premature Birth Report Cards by State For Professionals: Elimination of Non-medically Indicated (Elective) Deliveries Before 39 Weeks Gestational Age - March of Dimes, September 2010 Ob-Gyns Issue Guidance to Prevent Surgical Errors - Media-Newswire.com Nurse Staffing Guidelines - AWHONN Press Release, September 29, 2010 Postpartum Hemorrhage (PPH) Carts, Kits, Trays - California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative (CMQCC) Posters Pregnant Women and Seat Belts Pregnancy and Childbirth In Search of Cuts, Health Officials Question NICU Overuse - The New York Times Online, March 19, 2011 Panel Urges New Look at Caesarean Guidelines - The New York Times Online, March 10, 2010 Prevention of Perinatal Group B Streptococcal Disease - Revised Guidelines - Centers of Disease Control and Prevention Online, November 19, 2010 Vaginal Birth After Caesarean: New Insights - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, August 18, 2010 Quality Improvement 2011 March of Dimes Premature Birth Report Cards by State For Professionals: Elimination of Non-medically Indicated (Elective) Deliveries Before 39 Weeks Gestational Age - March of Dimes, September 2010 EVIDENCE-BASED/GUIDELINES A Guide to SAMHSA Evidence-Based Practices on the Web 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 Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) PubMed Team STEPPS™ TRICARE Family Care Center TRICARE Management Activity PERFORMANCE MEASURES, QUALITY IMPROVEMENT AND PATIENT SAFETY Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) 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 The Joint Commission - A Roadmap for Hospitals 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 Advances in Neonatal Care 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 SIDS and Infant Mortality Programs (ASIP) 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 Pregnancy Loss and Infant Death Alliance (PLIDA) Society for Gynecologic Investigation Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine STATISTICS March of Dimes: Peristats Fedstats: One Stop Shopping for Federal Statistics National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)

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