Quality Initiatives Related to Moderately Preterm, Late Preterm, and Early Term Births

Clinics in Perinatology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 777-789

  Trembath, Andrea N ^a   Iams, Jay D ^b   Walsh, Michele ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Delaying preterm birth; Human milk; Infection reduction; Preterm births; Quality improvement

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; PLACEBO; PROGESTERONE;

BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFANT FEEDING; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY CARE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; CROSS INFECTION; DELAYING PRETERM BIRTH; FEMALE; INFECTION REDUCTION; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; OBSTETRICS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREGNANCY; PRETERM BIRTHS; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

DELAYING PRETERM BIRTH; HUMAN MILK; INFECTION REDUCTION; PRETERM BIRTHS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT;

CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; MILK, HUMAN; OBSTETRICS; OHIO; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT;

EID: 84886947611     PISSN: 00955108     EISSN: 15579840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clp.2013.07.011     Document Type: Review

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