Journal of Public Health Management & Practice
Implementation Outcomes of 36 CDC-funded Statewide Perinatal Quality Collaboratives, 2023-2024
ABSTRACT Context: Maternal and infant morbidity and mortality remain high in the United States, and improving quality of clinical care is one strategy to improve outcomes. Perinatal Quality Collaboratives (PQCs) are statewide networks of teams working to improve maternal and infant health by supporting quality improvement (QI) initiatives. PQCs execute deliberate activities to support implementation of QI; implementation outcomes can be used to measure the execution of these activities. Objective: To examine PQC im …