Nutaqsiivik—An Approach to Reducing Infant Mortality Using Quality Improvement Principles
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Quality Management in Health Care
- Vol. 9 (3) , 40-46
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00019514-200109030-00005
Abstract
The Alaska Native Medical Center, one of nine teams that participated in the Institute for Health Care Improvement's Community-Wide Learning Collaborative, used quality improvement principles to address a disparately high post-neonatal infant mortality in the Anchorage Native infant population. A unique concept, “Days Between Deaths,” was used to measure mortality change for a small data set. Ongoing evaluation processes have demonstrated a fifty percent reduction in infant mortality and very successful approaches to care for high social risk women and their families.Keywords
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