All | IHI - Institute for Healthcare Improvement

95 items found

RatingUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).

Better Maternal Outcomes Quality Improvement Workbooks

Developed as part of the Better Maternal Outcomes Rapid Improvement Network, the workbooks contain descriptions, examples, and templates for tools that teams can use to guide their quality improvement (QI) work focused on improving maternal health outcomes and equity.

Black Maternal Health: Reducing Inequities Through Community Collaboration

These reports describe the guiding principles for the Better Maternal Outcomes: Redesigning Systems with Black Women project, and the experience of the four communities participating in the project to improve outcomes and reduce racial inequities in maternal outcomes for Black people who birth through community collaboration.

Tackling Systemic Racism in Maternity Care

A Brazilian health collaborative uses improvement science and the concept of “liberatory consciousness” to address racism in maternity care.

Effect of Data Quality Improvement Intervention on Health Information Management System Accuracy

A data quality improvement initiative embedded within woreda clinical improvement collaborative in Ethiopia improved the accuracy of data used to monitor maternal and newborn health services. The initiative was a partnership between the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health.

Providing Safe, High-Quality Maternity Care in Rural US Hospitals

This IHI Innovation Report examines the challenges and gaps that rural health care organizations in the US face; presents a synthesis of published evidence and effective approaches developed by clinicians and leaders; and describes potential strategies for providing safe, high-quality maternity care in rural areas.

A Quality Improvement Initiative to Increase the Frequency of Vaginal Delivery in Brazilian Hospitals

Four key interventions implemented with quality improvement (QI) methods in Brazilian hospitals were associated with increased vaginal delivery, suggesting that this approach may help address the global C-section delivery epidemic.

The Role of Racism as a Core Patient Safety Issue

Maternal mortality rates in the US are rising, particularly among black women. This article describes three things health care leaders can do to understand the contributing causes of mortality, including racism, and factors to reduce inequities and improve safety in maternal health.

WIHI: Black Women and Maternal Care: Redesigning for Safety, Dignity, and Respect

August 8, 2019 | With a significant rise in maternal deaths in the United States, how can providers partner with community groups to design respectul, dignified pregnancy experiences?

Using a Multicountry Learning Network to Harvest and Rapidly Spread Implementation Knowledge to Reduce Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV

This article describes the value of creating a quality improvement–driven, multicountry learning network to accelerate the pace of improving care systems in Africa to reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV.

Applying Quality Improvement Approaches to Reduce Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission and Improve Health and Nutrition Care in Five Countries

This article describes the application of quality improvement (QI) methods, as part of the Partnership for HIV-Free Survival, to support governments and facility staff in five African countries in reducing maternal-to-child transmission of HIV.

A Six-Country Collaborative Quality Improvement Initiative to Improve Nutrition and Decrease Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV

This article is the first report of the effectiveness of using quality improvement in a large-scale multicountry effort in Africa to improve infant survifal by reducing postnatal maternal-to-child transmission of HIV in breast feeding HIV-positive mothers.

Profiles in Improvement: Dr. Pierre Barker, IHI Chief Global Partnerships and Programs Officer

Dr. Pierre Barker, IHI Chief Global Partnerships and Programs Officer, describes some of IHI’s global work that is helping to improve health and health care worldwide.

Profiles in Improvement: Dr. Hema Magge, IHI Country Director, Ethiopia

Dr. Hema Magge, IHI Country Director in Ethiopia, is leading a program to reduce maternal and newborn mortality in Ethiopia. IHI and its partners are supporting the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health in an ambitious agenda to rapidly close gaps in national health outcomes through the coordination of quality planning, quality assurance, and quality improvement.

Tanzania-Kenya Knowledge Exchange for the Partnership for HIV-Free Survival: Reflections and Recommendations

This report describes best practices for scaling up prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, identified through the work of the Partnership for HIV-Free Survival, a six-country learning network across sub-Saharan Africa.

Can a Quality Improvement Project Impact Maternal and Child Health Outcomes at Scale in Northern Ghana?

This paper discusses the impact of a scale-up phase of Project Fives Alive! to improve maternal and child health outcomes, which used quality improvement methods to identify barriers to care and care-seeking, and then identify, test, implement, and scale up simple and low-cost local solutions to address the barriers. The project and this approach demonstrated improved outcomes at scale.

WIHI: Nurturing Trust: Addiction and Maternal and Newborn Health

June 2, 2016 | Addiction is always a complex challenge, but when a woman using substances is pregnant, suddenly two lives are at stake.

Healthy Shelby: A Triple Aim Improvement Story

This Triple Aim improvement story examines the work of the Healthy Shelby Initiative in Tennessee, a community pursuing a regional focus to improve population health by linking public health, hospitals, health care providers, social service providers, academic institutions, the faith community, local government, and funders to work together to tackle some of the county’s most critical health problems: infant mortality, chronic disease management, and end-of-life care.

WIHI: Saving Lives by Design: Lessons for All from Ghana's Project Fives Alive!

July 23, 2015 | One of the biggest ongoing challenges facing health and health care quality improvers is moving from small-scale successes to large-scale ones. That’s why it’s incredibly inspiring to learn from initiatives like Project Fives Alive! that are cracking the code.

Lessons Learned from Ghana's Project Fives Alive! A Practical Guide for Designing and Executing Large-Scale Improvement Initiatives

How do you set up a large-scale improvement project for success? After seven years of rapidly and successfully scaling up high-impact maternal and child health interventions across Ghana using a quality improvement approach, the lessons learned from Project Fives Alive! are documented in this practical guide. Topics include project design, day-to-day project management and leadership, building QI capability, managing complex partner relationships, and deploying a core set of balanced metrics.

Profiles in Improvement: Sodzi Sodzi-Tettey, MD, MPH, IHI Director of Project Fives Alive!

Dr. Sodzi Sodzi-Tettey, IHI Senior Technical Director for the Africa Region, talks about his work in Ghana with Project Fives Alive!, including the encouraging results they're seeing in reducing mortality of children under five years of age (work that is underpinned by strong technical leadership in QI), and IHI's growing portfolio of work in Africa.

Applying a Science-Based Method to Improve Perinatal Care: The IHI Perinatal Improvement Community

This article explores the origins of and the early challenges faced by the IHI Perinatal Improvement Community, the work to reduce early elective deliveries and rates of cesarean sections, IHI’s overall approach to improvement, and the growing role of the IHI Triple Aim in improving perinatal care.

Profiles in Improvement: Nneka Mobisson-Etuk, MD, Executive Director of African Operations, IHI

In this profile, Dr. Nneka Mobisson-Etuk describes her leadership of IHI's work in Africa, building on a near-decade of quality improvement work focused on maternal and child health, prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, quality planning strategy, building improvement capability in the region, and other areas of focus.

Impact Evaluation of a Quality Improvement Intervention on Maternal and Child Health Outcomes in Northern Ghana: Early Assessment of a National Scale-up Project

This study of the early phase of Project Fives Alive! to improve key maternal and child health outcomes in Ghana demonstrates that the quality improvement (QI) approach of testing and implementing simple, low-cost, locally-inspired changes has the potential to lead to improved health outcomes at scale both in Ghana and other low- and middle-income countries.

Using Quality Improvement Methods to Test and Scale Up a New National Policy on Early Post-natal Care in Ghana

This initiative demonstrates the utility of a quality improvement (QI) approach in testing, implementing, and subsequent scaling up a national policy for early post-natal care in a resource-constrained setting, and provides a model to accelerate the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in Ghana and other resource-poor countries.

Using a Campaign Approach Among Health Workers to Increase Access to Antiretroviral Therapy for Pregnant HIV-Infected Women in South Africa

A campaign approach among health workers to improve access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV-infected pregnant women in two districts in South Africa shows a four-fold increase in HIV-infected women initiated on ART.