Below is a selection of publications that CPQCC has produced as a result of our quality improvement initiatives and research projects.
2015
Rysavy MA, Li L, Bell EF, et al. "Between-hospital variation in treatment and outcomes in extremely preterm infants." N Engl J Med. 2015;372(19):1801-11.PubMed
Girsen AI, Do S, Davis AS, et al. "Peripartum and neonatal outcomes of small-for-gestational-age infants with gastroschisis." Prenat Diagn. 2015;35(5):477-82.PubMed
Weiss KJ, Kowalkowski MA, Treviño R, et al. "Needs assessment to improve neonatal intensive care in Mexico." Paediatr Int Child Health. 2015;35(3):213-9.PubMed
Davis AS, Gantz MG, Do B, et al. "Serial aEEG recordings in a cohort of extremely preterm infants: feasibility and safety." J Perinatol. 2015;35(5):373-8.PubMed
Gage S, Kan P, Lee HC, et al. "Maternal Asthma, Preterm Birth, and Risk of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia." J. Pediatr.. 2015;167(4):875-880.e1.PubMed
Kastenberg ZJ, Lee HC, Profit J, Gould JB, Sylvester KG. "Effect of deregionalized care on mortality in very low-birth-weight infants with necrotizing enterocolitis." JAMA Pediatr. 2015;169(1):26-32.PubMed
Duncan AF, Bann C, Boatman C, et al. "Do currently recommended Bayley-III cutoffs overestimate motor impairment in infants born
Hintz SR, Gould JB, Bennett MV, et al. "Referral of very low birth weight infants to high-risk follow-up at neonatal intensive care unit discharge varies widely across California." J. Pediatr.. 2015;166(2):289-95.PubMed
Rose J, Cahill-Rowley K, Vassar R, et al. "Neonatal brain microstructure correlates of neurodevelopment and gait in preterm children 18-22 mo of age: an MRI and DTI study." Pediatr Res. 2015;78(6):700-8.PubMed
Lyndon A, Lee HC, Gay C, Gilbert WM, Gould JB, Lee KA. "Effect of time of birth on maternal morbidity during childbirth hospitalization in California." Am. J. Obstet. Gynecol.. 2015;213(5):705.e1-11.PubMed
Chock VY, Milan KE, Folkins AK, Hazard FK, Bernstein JA, Hintz SR. "Prenatal hydrops foetalis associated with infantile free sialic acid storage disease." J Obstet Gynaecol. 2015;35(8):850-2.PubMed
Schulman J, Dimand RJ, Lee HC, Duenas GV, Bennett MV, Gould JB. "Neonatal intensive care unit antibiotic use." Pediatrics. 2015;135(5):826-33.PubMed
Byrnes J, Mahoney R, Quaintance C, et al. "Spatial and temporal patterns in preterm birth in the United States." Pediatr Res. 2015;77(6):836-44.PubMed
Shankaran S, McDonald SA, Laptook AR, et al. "Neonatal Magnetic Resonance Imaging Pattern of Brain Injury as a Biomarker of Childhood Outcomes following a Trial of Hypothermia for Neonatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy." J Pediatr. 2015;167(5):987-93.e3.PubMed
Lapcharoensap W, Gage SC, Kan P, et al. "Hospital variation and risk factors for bronchopulmonary dysplasia in a population-based cohort." JAMA Pediatr. 2015;169(2):e143676.PubMed
Carmichael SL, Blumenfeld YJ, Mayo J, et al. "Prepregnancy Obesity and Risks of Stillbirth." PLoS One. 2015;10(10):e0138549.PubMed
Blumenfeld YJ, Shamshirsaz AA, Belfort MA, et al. "Fetofetal Transfusion Syndrome in Monochorionic-Triamniotic Triplets Treated with Fetoscopic Laser Ablation: Report of Two Cases and A Systematic Review." AJP Rep. 2015;5(2):e153-60.PubMed
Profit J, Goldstein BA, Tamaresis J, Kan P, Lee HC. "Regional variation in antenatal corticosteroid use: a network-level quality improvement study." Pediatrics. 2015;135(2):e397-404.PubMed
2014
Profit J, Sharek PJ, Amspoker AB, et al. "Burnout in the NICU setting and its relation to safety culture." BMJ Qual Saf. 2014;23(10):806-13.PubMed
Morriss FH, Saha S, Bell EF, et al. "Surgery and neurodevelopmental outcome of very low-birth-weight infants." JAMA Pediatr. 2014;168(8):746-54.PubMed
Moise KJ, Hintz SR. "Fetal diagnosis and interventions." Am J Perinatol. 2014;31(7):547-8.PubMed
Stevens TP, Finer NN, Carlo WA, et al. "Respiratory outcomes of the surfactant positive pressure and oximetry randomized trial (SUPPORT)." J Pediatr. 2014;165(2):240-249.e4.PubMed
Lee HC, Powers RJ, Bennett MV, et al. "Implementation methods for delivery room management: a quality improvement comparison study." Pediatrics. 2014;134(5):e1378-86.PubMed
Davis AS, Chock VY, Hintz SR. "Fetal centers and the role of the neonatologist in complex fetal care." Am J Perinatol. 2014;31(7):549-56.PubMed
Myers A, Bernstein JA, Brennan M-L, et al. "Perinatal features of the RASopathies: Noonan syndrome, cardiofaciocutaneous syndrome and Costello syndrome." Am J Med Genet A. 2014;164A(11):2814-21.PubMed
Natarajan G, Shankaran S, Pappas A, et al. "Functional status at 18 months of age as a predictor of childhood disability after neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy." Dev Med Child Neurol. 2014;56(11):1052-8.PubMed
Carmichael SL, Cullen MR, Mayo JA, et al. "Population-level correlates of preterm delivery among black and white women in the U.S." PLoS One. 2014;9(4):e94153.PubMed
Gould JB, Mayo J, Shaw GM, Stevenson DK. "Swedish and American studies show that initiatives to decrease maternal obesity could play a key role in reducing preterm birth." Acta Paediatr. 2014;103(6):586-91.PubMed
Lanzieri TM, Bialek SR, Bennett MV, Gould JB. "Cytomegalovirus infection among infants in California neonatal intensive care units, 2005-2010." J Perinat Med. 2014;42(3):393-9.PubMed
Patel CJ, Yang T, Hu Z, et al. "Investigation of maternal environmental exposures in association with self-reported preterm birth." Reprod Toxicol. 2014;45:1-7.PubMed
Shaw GM, Wise PH, Mayo J, et al. "Maternal prepregnancy body mass index and risk of spontaneous preterm birth." Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol. 2014;28(4):302-11.PubMed
Jelliffe-Pawlowski LL, Ryckman KK, Bedell B, et al. "Combined elevated midpregnancy tumor necrosis factor alpha and hyperlipidemia in pregnancies resulting in early preterm birth." Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2014;211(2):141.e1-9.PubMed
Profit J, Wise PH, Lee HC. "Consequences of the affordable care act for sick newborns." Pediatrics. 2014;134(5):e1284-6.PubMed
Wadhawan R, Oh W, Hintz SR, et al. "Neurodevelopmental outcomes of extremely low birth weight infants with spontaneous intestinal perforation or surgical necrotizing enterocolitis." J Perinatol. 2014;34(1):64-70.PubMed
Hoffmann TJ, Shaw GM, Stevenson DK, et al. "Copy number variation in bronchopulmonary dysplasia." Am J Med Genet A. 2014;164A(10):2672-5.PubMed
Kracer B, Hintz SR, Van Meurs KP, Lee HC. "Hypothermia therapy for neonatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy in the state of California." J. Pediatr.. 2014;165(2):267-73.PubMed
Davis AS, Hintz SR, Goldstein RF, et al. "Outcomes of extremely preterm infants following severe intracranial hemorrhage." J Perinatol. 2014;34(3):203-8.PubMed
Profit J, Kowalkowski MA, Zupancic JAF, et al. "Baby-MONITOR: a composite indicator of NICU quality." Pediatrics. 2014;134(1):74-82.PubMed
DeMauro SB, D'Agostino JAnn, Bann C, et al. "Developmental outcomes of very preterm infants with tracheostomies." J Pediatr. 2014;164(6):1303-10.e2.PubMed
J Sexton B, Sharek PJ, Thomas EJ, et al. "Exposure to Leadership WalkRounds in neonatal intensive care units is associated with a better patient safety culture and less caregiver burnout." BMJ Qual Saf. 2014;23(10):814-22.PubMed
Gu W, Koh W, Blumenfeld YJ, et al. "Noninvasive prenatal diagnosis in a fetus at risk for methylmalonic acidemia." Genet Med. 2014;16(7):564-7.PubMed
2013
Gould JB, Danielsen BH, Bollman L, Hackel A, Murphy B. "Estimating the quality of neonatal transport in California." J Perinatol. 2013;33(12):964-70.PubMed
Lee HC, Bennett MV, Schulman J, Gould JB. "Accounting for variation in length of NICU stay for extremely low birth weight infants." J Perinatol. 2013;33(11):872-6.PubMed
Sherenian M, Profit J, Schmidt B, et al. "Nurse-to-patient ratios and neonatal outcomes: a brief systematic review." Neonatology. 2013;104(3):179-83.PubMed
Jelliffe-Pawlowski LL, Shaw GM, Currier RJ, et al. "Association of early-preterm birth with abnormal levels of routinely collected first- and second-trimester biomarkers." Am. J. Obstet. Gynecol.. 2013;208(6):492.e1-11.PubMed
Acosta CD, Knight M, Lee HC, Kurinczuk JJ, Gould JB, Lyndon A. "The continuum of maternal sepsis severity: incidence and risk factors in a population-based cohort study." PLoS ONE. 2013;8(7):e67175.PubMed
Correlation of neonatal intensive care unit performance across multiple measures of quality of care.
Profit J, Zupancic JAF, Gould JB, et al. "Correlation of neonatal intensive care unit performance across multiple measures of quality of care." JAMA Pediatr. 2013;167(1):47-54.PubMed
Lee HChong, Martin-Anderson S, Lyndon A, R Dudley A. "Perspectives on promoting breastmilk feedings for premature infants during a quality improvement project." Breastfeed Med. 2013;8:176-80.PubMed
Akula VP, Gould JB, Davis AS, Hackel A, Oehlert J, Van Meurs KP. "Therapeutic hypothermia during neonatal transport: data from the California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative (CPQCC) and California Perinatal Transport System (CPeTS) for 2010." J Perinatol. 2013;33(3):194-7.PubMed
Payne AH, Hintz SR, Hibbs AMaria, et al. "Neurodevelopmental outcomes of extremely low-gestational-age neonates with low-grade periventricular-intraventricular hemorrhage." JAMA Pediatr. 2013;167(5):451-9.PubMed