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Improving communication between obstetric and neonatology teams for high-risk deliveries: a quality improvement project
Summoning is a key component of communication between obstetrics and neonatal resuscitation team (NRT) in advance of deliveries. A paging system is a commonly used summoning tool. The timeliness and information contained in the page help NRT to optimally prepare for postdelivery infant care. Our aim...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5736089/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29450281 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjoq-2017-000095 |
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author | Sundgren, Nathan C Kelly, Frances C Weber, Emily M Moore, Merle L Gokulakrishnan, Ganga Hagan, Joseph L Brand, M Colleen Gallegos, Jennifer O Levy, Barbara E Fortunov, Regine M |
author_facet | Sundgren, Nathan C Kelly, Frances C Weber, Emily M Moore, Merle L Gokulakrishnan, Ganga Hagan, Joseph L Brand, M Colleen Gallegos, Jennifer O Levy, Barbara E Fortunov, Regine M |
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description | Summoning is a key component of communication between obstetrics and neonatal resuscitation team (NRT) in advance of deliveries. A paging system is a commonly used summoning tool. The timeliness and information contained in the page help NRT to optimally prepare for postdelivery infant care. Our aim was to increase the frequency that summoning pages contained gestational age and reason for NRT attendance to >90%. At baseline, 8% of pages contained gestational age and 33% of pages contained a reason for NRT attendance. Sequential Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles were used as our model for quality improvement. During the 8-month improvement period, the per cent of pages increased to 97% for gestational age and 97% for reason for NRT attendance. Measures of page timeliness, our balancing measure, did not change. Summoning communication between obstetric and NRT is crucial for optimal perinatal outcomes. The active involvement of all stakeholders throughout the project resulted in the development of a standardised paging tool and a more informative paging process, which is a key communication tool used in many centres. |
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spelling | pubmed-57360892018-02-15 Improving communication between obstetric and neonatology teams for high-risk deliveries: a quality improvement project Sundgren, Nathan C Kelly, Frances C Weber, Emily M Moore, Merle L Gokulakrishnan, Ganga Hagan, Joseph L Brand, M Colleen Gallegos, Jennifer O Levy, Barbara E Fortunov, Regine M BMJ Open Qual Original Article Summoning is a key component of communication between obstetrics and neonatal resuscitation team (NRT) in advance of deliveries. A paging system is a commonly used summoning tool. The timeliness and information contained in the page help NRT to optimally prepare for postdelivery infant care. Our aim was to increase the frequency that summoning pages contained gestational age and reason for NRT attendance to >90%. At baseline, 8% of pages contained gestational age and 33% of pages contained a reason for NRT attendance. Sequential Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles were used as our model for quality improvement. During the 8-month improvement period, the per cent of pages increased to 97% for gestational age and 97% for reason for NRT attendance. Measures of page timeliness, our balancing measure, did not change. Summoning communication between obstetric and NRT is crucial for optimal perinatal outcomes. The active involvement of all stakeholders throughout the project resulted in the development of a standardised paging tool and a more informative paging process, which is a key communication tool used in many centres. BMJ Publishing Group 2017-12-14 /pmc/articles/PMC5736089/ /pubmed/29450281 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjoq-2017-000095 Text en © Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://www.bmj.com/company/products-services/rights-and-licensing/ This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
spellingShingle | Original Article Sundgren, Nathan C Kelly, Frances C Weber, Emily M Moore, Merle L Gokulakrishnan, Ganga Hagan, Joseph L Brand, M Colleen Gallegos, Jennifer O Levy, Barbara E Fortunov, Regine M Improving communication between obstetric and neonatology teams for high-risk deliveries: a quality improvement project |
title | Improving communication between obstetric and neonatology teams for high-risk deliveries: a quality improvement project |
title_full | Improving communication between obstetric and neonatology teams for high-risk deliveries: a quality improvement project |
title_fullStr | Improving communication between obstetric and neonatology teams for high-risk deliveries: a quality improvement project |
title_full_unstemmed | Improving communication between obstetric and neonatology teams for high-risk deliveries: a quality improvement project |
title_short | Improving communication between obstetric and neonatology teams for high-risk deliveries: a quality improvement project |
title_sort | improving communication between obstetric and neonatology teams for high-risk deliveries: a quality improvement project |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5736089/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29450281 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjoq-2017-000095 |
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