Past Collaboratives
This is a continuation of the popular 'Controversies' series. The subjects we have chosen for this series are controversial. The evidence in many cases will not provide a clear answer.
Tradeoffs will need to be assessed and various points of view considered. However, the topics we have chosen all arise routinely
in daily NICU care. For more information . . .
The subjects we have chosen for this series are controversial. The evidence in many cases will not provide a clear answer.
Tradeoffs will need to be assessed and various points of view considered. However, the topics we have chosen all arise routinely
in daily NICU care. For more information . . .
This series includes new information in this rapidly evolving field and is suitable for teams at all NICUs providing care for
infants with encephalopathy regardless of whether they are providing hypothermic therapy.
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This collaborative helped teams improve and standardize key NICU processes, by creating and using new tools to support
standard work. Participants learned to make NICU processes family centered, safe, equitable, effective, efficient, timely and socially
and environmentally responsible.
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This collaborative provided an introduction to the Potentially Better Practices identified and tested by
teams that participated in the Network's NICQ 2005 Collaborative. In that Collaborative 47 multidisciplinary
teams from NICUs in North America worked with experts to identify and test Potentially Better Practices, PBPs,
in a variety of NICU domains.
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On May 10, 2006, Vermont Oxford Network hosted an iNICQ Internet collaborative on the topic of the Value Compass. Under the direction of William Edwards, MD and Gene Nelson, DSc, participating multidisciplinary teams learned to assess their unit's performance across important domains of outcomes to assess/improve quality and value of care. Teams applied Value Compass thinking to their unit using tools and methods that have been tested by teams that have participated in the Network's intensive NICQ collaboratives.
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On January 10, 2006, Vermont Oxford Network hosted an iNICQ Internet collaborative on the topic of neonatal encephalopathy. This was the fifth in a series of Internet collaboratives that have addressed a variety of topics aimed at improving the quality and safety of medical care for newborn infants and their families. The collaborative will be coordinated with the Network's Registry for Neonatal Encephalopathy.
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This series is a continuation of the work begun in the previous iNICQ Infection Collaborative which ended in November 2004. The goal of this collaborative is to achieve and sustain reductions in Nosocomial Infection. The motto is "Making it Work, Making it Stick....Transforming Ideas into Action!" This clinically based, action oriented series includes 5 interactive 90 minute web conferences focused on Reducing Infection in the NICU. Presented by nationally recognized experts in health care improvement and building on the learning and materials from the Network’s successful NIC/Q Quality Improvement Collaborative, each web conference provides formal teaching, interactive discussion and time for teams to work together. Prior to each conference, participating teams are provided with materials and prework assignments designed to prepare the team for action.
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This collaborative for Vermont Oxford Network members includes a series of five
interactive web conferences and access to a dedicated e-mail discussion list. Each web conference focuses
on a reducing infection while improving quality and safety directly tailored to the NICU environment.
Presented by nationally recognized experts in health care improvement and building on the learning and
materials from the Network's successful NIC/Q Quality Improvement Collaborative, each web conference will
provide formal teaching and an opportunity for interactive discussion. Prior to the conference
participating teams are provided with the Vermont Oxford Network "Tools for Improvement Series: Reducing Nosocomial
Infection" and receive pre-work assignments designed to prepare the team for improving safety in the NICU.
For more information . . .
This collaborative for Vermont Oxford Network members includes a series of
five interactive web conferences and access to a dedicated e-mail discussion
list. Each web conference focuses on a critical topic in patient safety directly
tailored to the NICU environment. Presented by nationally recognized experts
in health care improvement and building on the learning and materials from
the Network's successful NIC/Q Quality Improvement Collaborative, each web
conference will provide formal teaching and an opportunity for interactive
discussion. Prior to each conference participating teams are provided with
the Vermont Oxford Network "Tools for Improvement Series" Patient
Safety and receive pre-work assignments designed to prepare the team for improving
safety in the NICU.
For more information . . .
The Vermont Oxford Network is pleased to report that multidisciplinary teams
comprised of over 600
individuals from 63 neonatal intensive care units in North America and around the
world participated
in the first iNICQ - internet based improvement collaborative. The collaborative
included a series of
4 interactive web conferences and access to a dedicated e-mail discussion list.
Each web conference
focused on a critical topic in quality improvement and safety directly tailored to
the NICU
environment. Presented by nationally recognized experts in health care improvement
and building on
the learning and materials from the Network's successful NIC/Q Quality Improvement
Collaborative,
each web conference provided formal teaching in improvement techniques and an
opportunity for
interactive discussion. For more information . . .