Best Fed Beginnings: A Nationwide Quality Improvement Initiative to Increase Breastfeeding.

Background And Objective: In response to a low number of Baby-Friendly-designated hospitals in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funded the National Institute for Children's Health Quality to conduct a national quality improvement initiative between 2011 and 2015. The initiative was entitled Best Fed Beginnings and enrolled 90 hospitals in a nationwide initiative to increase breastfeeding and achieve Baby-Friendly designation.

Methods: The intervention period lasted from July 2012 to August 2014.

Impact of a quality improvement program on care and outcomes for children with asthma.

Objective: To test a quality improvement intervention, a learning collaborative based on the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Breakthrough Series methodology, specifically intended to improve care and outcomes for patients with childhood asthma.

Design: Randomized trial in primary care practices.

Setting: Practices in greater Boston, Mass, and greater Detroit, Mich.

Improving care for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: assessing the impact of self-assessment and targeted training on practice performance.

Objectives: Major gaps exist between usual clinical practice and evidence-based recommendations for care. Many interventions to improve care are costly and time intensive. This study sought to determine whether a clinician's self-assessment of their practice performance for the diagnosis and management of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) followed by attendance at a 2-day conference focused on system change would result in improvement in care.