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A 1999 Quality Improvement Initiative—Reassessment in 2004

Department of Pediatrics, Michigan State College of Human Medicine, Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies, Kalamazoo MI

Olufemi Soyode, MD

Department of Pediatrics, Michigan State College of Human Medicine, Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies, Kalamazoo MI

We obtained a longitudinal overview of physician compliance with the American Academy of Pediatrics Policy RE9539 regarding early newborn discharge between 1999 and 2004. In previous studies we reported the results of a Quality Improvement/Feedback (QI/F) initiative at one community hospital (intervention) in 1999, during which time physician education occurred at a grand rounds and the hospital QI department reviewed all newborn charts for a 1-year period, notifying physicians of any deviations from the policy. We also assessed the very same physicians at another community hospital (control), which did not have this initiative and found significant changes in physician behavior only at the intervention hospital. In this study we reassessed the same physicians in the year 2004 and compared their performance with that in 2000, after the intervention was well established, once again at both the intervention and control hospitals. Physicians caring for newborns at the intervention hospital continued to demonstrate improvement in compliance with the Early Newborn Discharge Policy (p=0.0036), whereas there was no significant change in physician performance over time at the control hospital (p=0.6874). We conclude, similarly to the first study, that improvement in physician practice continued, but there was still no overall change in physician culture.

Clinical Pediatrics, Vol. 44, No. 6, 527-530 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/000992280504400609


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