Scholarly Impact of Quality Improvement Reports in Neonatology.

Objective:  Neonatology quality improvement (QI) projects can improve the safety and value of health care, but the scholarly impact of published QI projects is unclear. We measured scholarly citation and media attention garnered by published neonatology QI projects and analyzed project or publication characteristics associated with increased impact metrics.

Study Design:  We identified publications between 2016 and 2019 using mapping review methodology.