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Quality improvement report

• Rationalising oxygen usage in a level II special newborn care unit in Madhya Pradesh, India (3 August, 2021)

  Jaiprakash Parmar, Vandana Pawar, Aarti Warathe, Manish Singh, Rajashree Bajaj, Jogender Kumar, Anu Thukral, Deepak Chawla, Praveen Kumar, Ashok Deorari
• Antibiotic stewardship in a tertiary care NICU of northern India: a quality improvement initiative (3 August, 2021)

  Sunita Agarwal, Jyoti Patodia, Jaikrishan Mittal, Yatish Singh, Vaibhav Agnihotri, Varun Sharma
• Implementing a three-hourly feeding schedule in stable preterm infants to decrease maternal fatigue (3 August, 2021)

  Abhishek S Aradhya, Inderjot Kaur, Rima Gupta, Sonaljot Kaur, Yamasandi Siddegowda Shrimanth, Parveen Darshan Masih, Praveen Kumar
• Establishing the practice of birth companion in labour ward of a tertiary care centre in India—a quality improvement initiative (3 August, 2021)

  Juhi Bharti, Aprajita Kumari, Rinchen Zangmo, Sonia Mathew, Sunesh Kumar, Aparna K Sharma
• Increasing adherence to plotting e-partograph: a quality improvement project in a rural maternity hospital in India (3 August, 2021)

  Shuchi Jain, Pramod Kumar, Manish Jain, Megha Bathla, Shiv Joshi, Sushil Srivastava, Mahtab Singh, Ajit Sudke, Vikram Datta, Poonam Shivkumar
• Rationalising antibiotic use after low-risk vaginal deliveries in a hospital setting in India (3 August, 2021)

  Shakti Sharma, Nikita Kumari, Rinku Sengupta, Yashika Malhotra, Saru Bhartia
• Reducing healthcare-associated infections by improving compliance to aseptic non-touch technique in intravenous line maintenance: a quality improvement approach (3 August, 2021)

  Savithri Shettigar, Abhishek Somasekhara Aradhya, Srinath Ramappa, Venugopal Reddy, Praveen Venkatagiri
• Use of point of care quality improvement methodology to improve newborn care, immediately after birth, at a tertiary care teaching hospital, in a resource constraint setting (3 August, 2021)

  Ravi Sachan, Himsweta Srivastava, Sushil Srivastava, Sanjeeta Behera, Promilla Agrawal, Sunil Gomber
• Improving donor human milk collection in a hospital without a human milk bank: a quality improvement initiative at an urban tertiary-care teaching hospital (3 August, 2021)

  Reema Garegrat, Nandini Malshe, Pradeep Suryawanshi, Suprabha K Patnaik
• Ensuring administration of first dose of antibiotics within the golden hour of management in neonates with sepsis (3 August, 2021)

  Somosri Ray, Venkataseshan Sundaram, Sourabh Dutta, Praveen Kumar
• Advancing emergency airway management by reducing intubation time at a high-volume academic emergency department (3 August, 2021)

  Bharath Gopinath, Seema Sachdeva, Akshay Kumar, Gaurav Kumar
• Checklist to aid young physicians managing obstetric emergencies in rural India: a quality improvement initiative (3 August, 2021)

  Varad Puntambekar, Aparna K Sharma, Kapil Yadav, Rakesh Kumar
• Quality improvement initiative approach to decrease the unindicated usage of antibiotics in a neonatal intensive care unit of a tertiary care teaching hospital in Hyderabad, India (3 August, 2021)

  Kalyan Chakravarthy Konda, Himabindu Singh, Alimelu Madireddy, Megha Mala Rao Poodari
• Increasing postpartum IUCD coverage through a QI initiative: a step towards reducing the unmet need of postpartum contraception (3 August, 2021)

  Swati Agrawal, Manju Puri, Anuradha Singh, Sushma Sehrawat, Shilpa Sood, Kavita Choudhary, Anu Handa, R Induja, Apurwa Bardhan, Pooja Luthra, Preeti Pawar, Nidhi Singh, Swati Tyagi, Jismaria Antony, Priyanka Arora, Sukriti Ghai, Tanya Shubham, Vaishali Suraiya, Surabhi Sapna, Mani Ajithkumar
• Institution of an antibiotic stewardship programme for rationalising antibiotic usage: a quality improvement project in the NICU of a public teaching hospital in rural central India (3 August, 2021)

  Manish Jain, Akash Bang, Payal Meshram, Prachi Gawande, Karuna Kawhale, Pushpanjali Kamble, Vijayshri Deotale, Vikram Datta, Ramasubbareddy Dhanireddy