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  • The study aimed to enhance communication and collaboration between neonatal and obstetric specialties across five NICUs.
  • One area of focus was improving management practices for pregnancies at the edge of viability, along with training teams through video simulations to boost performance during high-risk deliveries.
  • Key outcomes included increased patient satisfaction with teamwork and improved response times and communication skills among medical teams in emergent delivery situations.

Article Abstract

Objective: The objective of this study was to make improvements in communication and collaboration between neonatal and obstetric specialties. Five NICUs from the Vermont Oxford Network's Evidence-Based Quality Improvement Collaborative in Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine tested potentially better practices that overlap obstetric and NICU care.

Methods: One area of practice improvement was the management of the pregnancy at the margin of viability. Another included the use of team training and video simulation to improve team performance during high-risk deliveries using aviation-based communication techniques. Another focus of the collaborative was the creation of a multicenter database to measure combined perinatal and neonatal outcomes.

Results: The principle outcomes are increased patient satisfaction with teamwork between neonatology and obstetric services and improved team response times for emergent deliveries and the increased use of team communication skills during video simulations of high-risk deliveries.

Conclusions: Implementing these potentially better practices can result in improved communication and collaboration related to perinatal and neonatal care.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1542/peds.2006-0913MDOI Listing

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