Neonatal Quality Improvement

A Clearer View: Leveraging Cardiac POCUS to Minimize NICU Radiation Exposure

A multicenter safety-net NICU quality improvement collaborative shows sustained and equitable improvement in maternal milk at discharge rates in VLBW infants.

A multicentre implementation study of home phototherapy for neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia (TREAT jaundice@home study).

A Novel Use of Risk Stratification Tools to Identify Quality Improvement Targets for the Reduction of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia Rates

A Quality Improvement Initiative to Reduce Fractures Associated with Metabolic Bone Disease of Prematurity

A Quality Improvement Initiative to Reduce Unplanned Extubations in the NICU

Achieving Early Vascular Access for Preterm Infants in the Golden Hour

Adherence to Updated Oxygen Saturation Guidelines: Successes and Challenges of a Quality Improvement Initiative

Autorefractometer Vision Screening in NICU Follow-Up Clinic: A Quality Improvement Initiative

Beyond the Bundle: An Interdisciplinary Quality Improvement Initiative for NICU CLABSI Prevention

Brave enough to try, smart enough to stop: A lesson in knowing when to discontinue a new intervention

Breaking the Habit: A Quality Improvement Initiative to Eliminate Gastric Residual Checks in the NICU with Nursing Insights

Can a Clinical Care Bundle Protect Against NEC in the NICU?

Clear View, First Try: A Quality Improvement Approach to Neonatal Intubation

Decreasing Early Hypoglycemia in Preterm Infants

Defining challenges in obtaining research consent in a level IV NICU

Delayed Cord Clamping in Preterm Infants: A Quality Improvement Initiative

Dexmedetomidine as First-Intention Sedation in Preterm Infants: A Quality Improvement Initiative

Does real-time Point-of-Care Ultrasound(POCUS) for neonatal Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter(nPICC) tip confirmation in NICU reduces the Catheter Line Associated Blood Stream Infection (CLABSI)?

Enhancing Maternal Mental Health: A Quality Improvement Project Implementing Postpartum Depression Screening in a Level IV NICU

Enhancing Neonatal Resuscitation Capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Impact of a Targeted Quality Improvement Training

Enhancing NICU Discharge Processes: A Quality Improvement Approach to Earlier Discharges by 11 am

Equitable Increase in Skin-to-Skin in ELBW and VLBW Infants, Including on High Frequency Jet Ventilator - A Quality Improvement Initiative

Evaluating Risk Factors to Create a Risk Assessment Tool to Reduce Unplanned Extubations in a Level IV NICU

Evaluating the Impact of an evidence based bilirubin discharge bundle on readmission rate of newborns due to indirect hyperbilirubinemia

Feeding practice in extremely low gestational age neonates (ELGANs)

Fewer Pokes, Stronger Starts: Minimizing Painful Procedures in the NICU

Following Through with NICU Follow-Up: A Quality Improvement Project

From Continuous to Conscious: A Quality Improvement Initiative to Reduce Continuous Opioid Infusions in Extremely Preterm Neonates

From Pathway to Practice: Implementing Evidence-Based Quality Improvement for ELBW Care

From the Intensive Care Unit to High Risk Infant Follow Up Clinic: An Ongoing Quality Improvement Initiative to Improve High Risk Follow-Up After Discharge

Golden Hour: A Golden Opportunity to Improve Early Care in Very Preterm Infants

Human vs Artificial Intelligence Scheduling in NICU Fellowship: A Randomized Quality Initiative to Evaluate Fellow Satisfaction, Fairness, and Perceived Scheduling Source

Impact of Implementation of Standardized Guideline for Postnatal Dexamethasone Administration on Outcomes of Premature Neonates

Implementation of a Care Bundle to Prevent Skin Injuries in Neonates Undergoing Continuous Electroencephalogram

Implementation of a Multicenter EHR Rounding Checklist Tool Supporting Neonatal Quality Improvement and Safety

Implementation of a Pilot Nasogastric Tube Home Discharge Program in a level IV NICU

Implementation of a Quality Improvement Intervention to Reduce Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia in Very Low Birth Weight Infants at 4 NEOCOSUR Centers.

Implementation of “Surfactant Silver Hour” to decrease the time to surfactant administration in early preterm infants (<32 weeks)- A Quality Improvement Project

Implementation of an Aortic Arch Watch Protocol for Neonatal Patients at Risk of Coarctation of the Aorta in a Large Tertiary NICU Setting

Implementation of Antibiotic Stewardship Program in Kaiser Permanente Southern California Neonatal Intensive Care Units: 3-Year Regional Quality Improvement Project

Implementation of Surfactant Administration through Laryngeal Mask or Supraglottic Airway (SALSA) as part of a Gentle Ventilation approach

Implementation of the Safe Sleep Initiative to Improve Education, Documentation and Equity in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)

Implementing a Feeding Protocol During Therapeutic Hypothermia for Neonates with Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy: A Quality Improvement Initiative

Implementing a Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders Screening Program in a Level IV NICU

Implementing Minimally Invasive Surfactant Therapy at McMaster Children’s Hospital’s NICU: A pre- and post-implementation cohort study

Improving Admission Normothermia for Infants <32 Weeks at a Community Level III NICU

Improving Admission Temperature In Neonates ≤ 32 Weeks’ Gestational Age: A Multidisciplinary Quality Improvement Initiative

Improving Breast Milk Oral Care (BMOC) in the NICU through an Equity-Focused QI Initiative

Improving Early Colostrum Feeding in Preterm Infants: A NICU Quality Improvement Initiative

Improving Kangaroo Care in a Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit with a Focus on Families with Preferred Language Other than English

Improving Lactation Outcome in Parents of Preterm Infants Through Documentation of First Pump

Improving Outcomes of Extremely Preterm Infants Through a Small Baby Program: A Collaborative Quality Improvement Approach

Improving Social Determinants of Health Screening in a High-Risk Infant Follow-Up Clinic: A Quality Improvement Initiative

Improving support at home: Using quality improvement to increase discharge home health referrals for infants with in utero opioid exposure

Improving the Provision of Mother’s Own Milk in a Referral Level IV NICU

Improving the Workflow of the Newborn Nursery

Improving Timely Completion of Golden Hour Targets in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Improving Vaccination Rates in a Level IV NICU

Increasing Interpreter Utilization for Birth Parents with a Preferred Language Other than English (PLOE) in the Delivery Room (DR)

Increasing rates of family caregiver holding of infants in a surgical NICU: a quality improvement initiative

Increasing the Rate of Timely Discharges in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Less Invasive, More Impactful: QI project to bring LISA to level 4 NICU

Multidrug-resistant organism (MDRO) colonization rates during a sustained antibiotic stewardship program in a Level IV NICU

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Neonatal Quality Improvement Trainee Ongoing Projects

Noninferiority Study Assessing Accuracy of pH Testing for Nasogastric and Orogastric Tube Placement vs Radiography

Non-Invasive Positive Pressure Ventilation: A Quality Improvement Project Guided by Practice Preference Measurement

Obtaining Birth Weight in the Delivery Room: A Golden Hour Quality Improvement Initiative

Optimization of Initiation to Cannulation – Neonatal (OPTIC-NEO)

Optimizing Cord Management at Birth: A Multidisciplinary Quality Improvement Initiative.

Optimizing Diuretic Management in Extremely Preterm Infants with Evolving Chronic Lung Disease Using Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS)

Optimizing Early Detection and Management of Vitamin D Deficiency in NICU Patients: A Quality Improvement Initiative

Optimizing ETT Depth and Preventing Unplanned Extubation in Neonates via Utilizing Gestational Age Charts: A QI Interventions

Optimizing Risk-Adjusted Mortality Outcomes in a Level IV NICU Using Quality Improvement Strategies

Outcomes of Implementation of Surveillance and Decolonization for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a Midwest Neonatal

Predicting Neonatal Outcomes in the Presence of Heterogeneity: Lessons Learned from the Neocosur Network

Preserving Tiny Guts: A QI Journey to Optimize NEC Antibiotic Stewardship

Prevention of Intraventricular Hemorrhage in Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants at a Single-Center Level IV NICU: A Quality Improvement Initiative

Project REFER (Reinforcing Engagement on Follow-ups for External Referrals)

Protecting Tiny Eyes: Histogram Monitoring in the Neonatal ICU for Prevention of ROP

QI Initiative to Reduce Invasive Ventilation in Extreme Preterm Infants

Quality Improvement Initiative: Implementation of a Standardized NICU-Specific Social Determinants of Health Screener

Ready, Set, Discharge: Improving NICU Discharge Efficiency and Reducing Parental Burden

Reconfiguring Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Discharge Planning Processes To Promote Early Discharges In A Level III-C NICU

Reducing Barriers to Providing Targeted Oxygen Saturation in Preterm Infants

Reducing Coagulase-Negative Staphylococcus Positive Blood Cultures in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Reducing Early Readmissions after Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Discharge: A Quality Improvement Project

Reducing PIVIE in the NICU: 6 Years of Improvement and Sustainability

Reducing Rates of Post-Operative Hypothermia in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Quality Improvement Initiative

Reducing the Incidence of PIV Infiltration and Extravasation in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU): A Quality Improvement Initiative.

Reducing Time to Surfactant Administration with the Lung Ultrasound Score: A Quality Improvement Study

Reduction in Severe Intraventricular Hemorrhage Following Implementation of a Small Baby Program: A Tertiary NICU Quality Improvement Study

Reduction of CLABSIs in a LEVEL IV NICU Utilizing a Broadened Line Placement Algorithm

Reduction of Postoperative Tracheostomy Related Pressure Injuries in a Level IV NICU and PICU

Reduction of prolonged antibiotics in culture-negative sepsis (CNS), through a continuous quality improvement (QI) program in the NICU of Hospital Cayetano Heredia (HCH), Lima, Peru.

Small Patients, Big Needs: Implementing Social Drivers of Health (SDoH) Screening Across the NICU Continuum

Small Steps, Big Gains: Improving Growth in Infants with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome

SOLVE: A Multidisciplinary Quality Improvement Approach to Shorten NICU Stay for Infants ≥35 Weeks

Standardized Bilirubin Phototherapy Systems (SBPS): A Metrology- Driven Platform for Accurate, Real-Time Irradiance Measurement in Neonatal Phototherapy

Standardizing Serial Sarnat Exams in the NICU Within the First Six Hours of Life

Statewide Quality Collaborative to Optimize Newborn Care Delivery Practices and Outcomes Across Alabama

Staying in the Target Zone: A Quality Improvement Initiative to Achieve Oxygen Goal Saturations in Preterm Infants

STEM Evaluation of Neonatal CATCH: 30-day Post-Discharge Remote Management of Complex NICU Graduates

Sustained CLABSI Reduction in a Level IV NICU Through Insertion & Maintenance Bundle Reliability with CHG Bathing and Audit Changes: Jan 2020–September 2025

SWEET: Standardized Workflow to Enhance Early Treatment and Reduce Hypoglycemia in Neonates

Systematic Preventive Bundled Care and a Culture of Consistency Sustained Low Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia Rates in High-Risk Preterm Infants: A 10-Year NICU Quality Improvement Project

Tennessee’s Tiniest Babies: Reducing Chronic Lung Disease in Very Preterm Infants

Tennessee’s Tiniest Babies: Reducing Severe Intraventricular Hemorrhage in Very Preterm Infants

Treating the Unknown: Patterns of Antibiotic Use in Culture-Negative Sepsis

Virtual Human Factors Table-top Evaluations to Improve Neonatal Resuscitation in Rural Hospitals

Warming Up to Better Outcomes: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Reducing Post-Operative Hypothermia in a Level IV NICU

Weaning guidelines for Stopping CPAP in Preterm Infants Born at ≤29 Weeks Estimated Gestational Age: A QI initiative