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Year 2 Kickoff - January 16, 2024, McKimmon Center, Raleigh, NC - register

Everything you need to get started in one place -

For those of you requiring IRB approval - click here

Participation Agreement - requirements for participation

Charter - what we're doing

Action Plan - how we're doing it

GET YOUR TEAM STARTED
Intent to participate - start gettiing news and updates - register here
Roster - who's on your team - PDF Worksheet / link to submit
Snapshot - where you are now - PDF Worksheet / link to submit
PreWork Checklist - what to do before January 10, 2025 - PDF Checklist
Kickoff Packet

ESSENTIAL LINKS
Kickoff - January 16, 2024, McKimmon Center, Raleigh, NC - register
Learning Session 2 - date/registration TBA
Learning Session 3 - date/registration TBA

Quality Improvement Tools
Quality Improvement Plan
Monthly Leadership Report

Initiative Tools
Patient / Provider Screen
Referral Protocol / Flowchart

Data Dictionary
Cardiac Conditions in Obstetric Care Data Dictionary

Data Collection Tool
Cardiac Conditions in Obstetric Care Data Collection - click to download

Data / Reports
Attention Data Collectors: Instructions on how to access your team's data entry project in Life QI will be coming soon — please be sure to submit your team roster including your data entry contact person.
LifeQI Training Video
LifeQI Virtual Training - A virtual training session occured on Wednesday, February 12, 11am-12:30pm with a Life QI consultant for live orientation to the program - view recording below

PQCNC OB Cardiac Care Resources

Read:

Review the ACOG Practice Bulletin No. 212: Pregnancy and Heart Disease for an overview of the risk factors, common cardiac conditions, and recommendations for care for pregnant and postpartum cardiac patients in the US.

Learn about Racial and Rural-Urban Disparities in Maternal Cardiac Disease Care in North Carolina, a study of cardiac severe maternal mortality from inpatient data, including disparities in rural/urban and Black/White patient populations.
Read about the Development and implementation of a pregnancy heart team at a Southeastern United States tertiary hospital to understand how to develop and who should be involved in a pregnancy heart team for patients with cardiac disease.

Listen:

Hear an interview with a cardiologist-MFM from the California PQC about Antepartum Assessment of the Pregnant Cardiac Patient, including the importance of cardiac screening in all patients and the roles of different clinicians in planning for cardiac care in pregnancy.
Stay up to date on Maternal Mortality in the US: What's Happening through an episode of The Critical Care Obstetrics Podcast, including discussion of data from maternal mortality review committees and cardiac conditions.

Brainstorm:

Get inspired about changes that could be made by reviewing the tables in the IHI’s Cardiac Conditions in Obstetrical Care Change Package.

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