We would like to provide you the opportunity to submit the details of a current Quality Improvement Project that you are a part of. By completing this Submission Form, you can explain the background, processes, outcomes, strengths and weaknesses of your quality improvement project. The QI committee will then display this information for easy viewing to the members of the pediatric neurosurgery community.

Objectives:

• To create an open source list of pediatric neurosurgery QI projects
• To provide the pediatric neurosurgery community an opportunity to share their detailed experiences on specific QI projects at their institution

Journal articles of interest:

1 – Quality Improvement in Pediatric Neurosurgery – General reviews

• A systematic review of the power of standardization in pediatric neurosurgery
• Quality and patient safety research in pediatric neurosurgery
• Current state and future direction of quality improvement

2- QI in Hydrocephalus

• Canadian Consensus Practice Recommendation- Post Hemorrhagic Ventricular Dilatation in Preterm Infants: Diagnosis and Management during the neonatal period October 2024. (Draft version, unpublished. Submission in preparation [January 2025])
• The Hydrocephalus Clinical Research Network QI initiative the role of antibiotic-impregnated catheters and vancomycin wound irrigation

QI initiatives:

• Simple Sacral Dimples
  • The Sacral Dimple Imaging Recommendations: How I Do It?
  • Brief Summary of Published Literature
  • CHOP Clinical Pathway
  • UW Madison Recommendations
• Reducing SSI with ITB pump placement
• Standardization of naming convention with stereoEEG placement
• Safety recommendations for indwelling neurosurgical devices – (Click here for the recommendations, and here for the Stoplight tool)
• Perioperative care of pediatric neurosurgery patients
  • Postoperative Use of NSAIDs and Ketorolac
  • Postoperative Pain Control in Chiari I malformation
  • Postoperative Day 1 Discharge after Uncomplicated Tethered Cord Release