Creating Change at Scale: Quality Improvement Strategies used by the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative.

Obstet Gynecol Clin North Am

California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford Medical School Office Building, 1265 Welch Road, MS 5415, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA. Electronic address:

Published: June 2019

Creating change at scale within a short time frame poses multiple challenges. Using the experience of the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative, the authors illustrate how state perinatal quality collaboratives have been able to achieve this goal using a series of key steps: engage as many disciplines and partner organizations as possible; mobilize low-burden data to create a rapid-cycle data center to support the quality improvement efforts; provide up-to-date guidance for implementation using safety bundles and tool kits; and make available coaching and peer learning to support implementation through multihospital quality collaboratives. There are now multiple national resources available to support these efforts.

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