Improving maternal care with a continuous quality improvement strategy: a report from the interventions to minimize preterm and low birth weight infants through continuous improvement techniques (IMPLICIT) network

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 380-386

  Bennett, Ian M ^a,e   Coco, Andrew ^b   Anderson, Janice ^c   Horst, Michael ^b   Gambler, Angela S ^b   Barr, Wendy Brooks ^d   Ratcliffe, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b LANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Forbes Family Medicine Residency Program   (United States)

^d Beth Israel Residency in Urban Family Practice   (United States)

^e Inst of Social Med and Comm Hlth   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIURIA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL CARE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PREMATURITY; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; SMOKING HABIT;

ADULT; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MEDICAL AUDIT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE BIRTH; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650860478     PISSN: 15572625     EISSN: 15587118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2009.04.090111     Document Type: Article

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