Paul Sharek MD, MPH
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Evaluation and development of potentially better practices to prevent chronic lung disease and reduce lung injury in neonates.
Pediatrics. 2003; (4 Pt 2): e426-31
Despite increased knowledge and improving technology, chronic lung disease (CLD) rates in extremely low birth weight infants have remained constant for 20 years. One reason for this is an ineffective translation of research-proven improvements into practice. The Neonatal Intensive Care Quality Improvement Collaborative Year 2000 (NIC/Q 2000) was created to provide participating nurseries the tools necessary to effect change. The objective of this study was to develop and implement a process that uses quality improvement techniques to collaboratively improve CLD rates.
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