A Framework for Measuring Hospital Participation in a Perinatal Quality Collaborative Quality Improvement Initiative

Perinatal quality collaboratives (PQCs) share a common goal of improving perinatal health care quality and health outcomes through the implementation of quality improvement (QI) initiatives in their state or region. PQCs engaging with maternity or delivery hospitals in their state or region is critical to having a population-level impact. Given the important differences between states in context and PQC operations, establishing comparable standard participation measures that can be applied uniformly across all PQCs is challenging. The National Network of Perinatal Quality Collaboratives (NNPQC), along with state PQC leaders, have developed a flexible measurement framework for hospital participation in a PQC QI initiative that each PQC can adopt or adapt to their own context and structure to improve health care quality and health outcomes for the populations they serve. This measure framework is intended to provide a simple and flexible way to measure hospital participation in a PQC QI initiative.