KEYWORDS
• Quality improvement • Maternal morbidity • Maternal mortality
• Perinatal quality collaboratives • Patient safety bundles
KEY POINTS
• Quality improvement is an important, proven strategy to improve maternal and infant care and outcomes.
• Patient safety bundles are evidence-informed tools used to improve hospital processes and outcomes.
• Perinatal Quality Collaboratives comprehensively support quality improvement activities (eg, implementing patient safety bundles) in a variety of settings, leading to improved care and outcomes.
• There are many examples of PQCs using PSBs to successfully improve care processes and outcomes.
• Multidisciplinary hospital teams are key for the success of PQCs and their quality improvement initiatives.