Coming Together to Save Babies: Our Institution's Quality Improvement Collaborative to Improve Infant Safe Sleep Practices.

ABSTRACT: Many hospitalized infants are not observed in an American Academy of Pediatrics-recommended safe sleep environment, which can translate to unsafe sleep practices at home. We implemented this collaborative to reduce our county's sleep-related death rate by improving infant safe sleep practices in the freestanding children's hospital setting and increasing safe sleep screening and education in our clinics and emergency departments (EDs).

Methods

Physicians from our institution's primary care clinics, EDs, neonatal intensive care units, and general inpatient units created and led multidisciplinary safe sleep teams. Teams have used standardized data tools to collect information on infant patient ages and sleep position and environment, both in the hospital and at home. Based on audit da

SUBMITTER: Macklin JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7870245 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature