A Statewide Progestogen Promotion Program in Ohio.

Objective: To promote use of progestogen therapy to reduce premature births in Ohio by 10%.

Methods: The Ohio Perinatal Quality Collaborative initiated a quality improvement project in 2014 working with clinics at 20 large maternity hospitals, Ohio Medicaid, Medicaid insurers, and service agencies to use quality improvement methods to identify eligible women and remove treatment barriers. The number of women eligible for prophylaxis, the percent prescribed a progestogen before 20 and 24 weeks of gestation, and barriers encountered were reported monthly.

Piloting a Statewide Home Visiting Quality Improvement Learning Collaborative.

Objective To pilot test a statewide quality improvement (QI) collaborative learning network of home visiting agencies. Methods Project timeline was June 2014-May 2015. Overall objectives of this 8-month initiative were to assess the use of collaborative QI to engage local home visiting agencies and to test the use of statewide home visiting data for QI.

Public health detailing: a strategy to improve the delivery of clinical preventive services in New York City.

To promote use of essential clinical preventive services, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene developed the Public Health Detailing Program, a primary care provider outreach initiative modeled on pharmaceutical detailing. Department representatives conducted topical campaigns, making unscheduled visits to health care practices and meeting with providers and office staff members. Representatives distributed "action kits" containing practice tools, provider information, and patient education materials; nicotine replacement therapy was distributed during the smoking cessation campaign.