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Quality improvement report

• Improving handwashing among parent-attendants visiting a newborn unit practising family participatory care (20 October, 2022)

  Arti Maria, Ankur Sooden, Rashmi Wadhwa, Ravleen Kaur, Indu Gaur, Kalsang Lhamo, Vallamkonda Nagaratna
• Preidentification of high-risk pregnancies to improve triaging at the time of admission and management of complications in labour room: a quality improvement initiative (17 June, 2022)

  Prabha Kumari, Mahtab Singh, Shailja Sinha, Rajeev Ranjan, Prachi Arora, Sunita Rani, Aparna Aggarwal, Kanika Aggarwal, Shefali Gupta
• Implementing use of sucrose analgesia (non-pharmacological management of neonatal pain) in a standalone private facility level 3 neonatal care unit using point of care quality improvement methodology (15 June, 2022)

  Kedar Sawleshwarkar, Mahtab Singh, Ramesh Bajaj, Sanjog Loya, Rakesh Chikhlondhe, Sunita Bhave
• Sustaining immediate newborn care processes (delayed cord clamping and early breastfeeding initiation) in the delivery room: a quality improvement study (18 May, 2022)

  Pranavi Nagendla, Ambika Manju, Abhishek Somasekhara Aradhya, Roopa N Shebannavar, Praveen Venkatagiri
• Improving quality of antenatal care services in a high case load tertiary care teaching hospital (Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial (GSVM) Medical College) in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India (11 May, 2022)

  Praveen Kumar Sharma, Sebanti Ghosh, Vikrant Prabhakar, Mahtab Singh, Thomas Forissier, Rajendra Prasad, Anjali Datta, Benazir Patil, Kiran Pandey, Neena Gupta, Seema Nigam
• Initiative to improve quality of paediatric ward-round documentation by application of ‘SOAP’ format (11 May, 2022)

  Neha Joshi, Himanshi Bakshi, Abhishek Chatterjee, Saru Bhartia
• An initiative to reduce medication errors in neonatal care unit of a tertiary care hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal: a quality improvement report (11 May, 2022)

  Sayantan Mondal, Mukut Banerjee, Shrabani Mandal, Asim Mallick, Nina Das, Biswanath Basu, Ritu Ghosh
• Sustaining prolonged kangaroo mother care in stable low birthweight babies over 2 years in a predominant outborn unit: a quality improvement approach (11 May, 2022)

  Gayathri Ramachandrappa, Abhishek Somasekhara Aradhya, Latha Mercy, Anil Kumar, Praveen Venkatagiri
• Rational use of antibiotics for major elective gynaecological and obstetrical surgical procedures: quality improvement journey from a tertiary care public facility (11 May, 2022)

  Manju Puri, Shilpi Nain, Akriti Gautam, Vidhi Chaudhary, Nishtha Jaiswal, Triveni GS, Deepika Meena, Meenakshi Singh, Kanika Chopra, Poornima Sharma, Ekta Chhillar, Harpreet Verma, Richa Mahato
• Quality improvement initiative to improve the duration of Kangaroo Mother Care in tertiary care neonatal unit of South India (11 May, 2022)

  Sathya Jegannathan, Muthukumaran Natarajan, Manikumar Solaiappan, Ramya Shanmugam, Sandeep Ajit Tilwani