Helping Improve Pediatric Practice Outcomes (HIPPO) Asthma Study

A project to develop, implement and evaluate a sustainable approach to improving the quality of care provided in primary care settings to children with asthma.

Status: Inactive
January 1997 to December 1999

Who

Phase 1 of the project involved six pediatric practices in Boston and six in Chapel Hill, N.C. Phase 2 was a national collaborative with 20 teams.

Our Role

Served as educators and coaches to participating teams as they tested different quality improvement strategies and tools to improve the care they provide to children with asthma.

Funder

The project was funded by David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The national collaborative was run in partnership with the Pediatric Research in Office Settings (PROS) Network.

Project Impact

reduction in severe maternal morbidity from hemorrhage among Black women
(Louisiana PQC, 2018-2020)
people involved in something
exciting things in progress

External Resources

State Perinatal Quality Collaboratives

List of PQCs funded by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

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The Power of PQCs

Video showing the impact that PQCs have on the communities they serve. Produced by the NNPQC.

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PQCs in the News

Articles in news outlets covering state PQCs, their activities, and the people that work in the collaboratives.

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Patient Safety Bundles

From the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health. PSBs are collections of evidence-informed best practices that address clinically specific conditions in pregnant and postpartum people. The NNPQC helps provide TA and support to PQCs in adopting the core AIM Perinatal Mental Health Bundle.

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Perinatal Quality Collaboratives

The CDC’s landing page for PQCs, including helpful infographics, videos, and links to help explain what PQCs are, how they work, and stories, learnings, and publications that have come out of the state PQCs.

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Related Content

Resources produced by the Helping Improve Pediatric Practice Outcomes (HIPPO) Asthma Study project or on related topics

Meet Our Team

“In our deep organizational work to move along the Equity Systems Continuum from a Savior-Designed System to an Equity-Empowered System, we acknowledge the power of action. The potential is limitless for today’s commitments to improve the systems in which health care and public health professionals work and families receive care.”

Stacy Scott, PhD, MPA
Executive Project Director and Equity Lead at NICHQ