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 The next webinar will be Tuesday, July 24th, 7:30 - 8:30 AM. Please plan to have at least one person from your team on the call so we can hear your 'voice'.
Click here for webinar information.
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We want to hear from YOU!
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 Please take a moment to respond to this email and answer the following questions. We will both share aggregate results and use them to help shape the direction of the remaining time in this initiative.
1) Who is on your team - who are the folks engaged and contributing to the work of the team? Do you have a physician leader? A nursing leader? An executive leader? A family leader? Who looks at the data as it's collected and are they part of the team effecting change?
2) Share one success - something that you've focused on, addressed, and what success looks like.
3) Share one lingering challenge - something that you've focused on, but on which you just can't seem to get traction.
4) Stop five random folks in your unit - are they aware that your unit is participating in the initiative? Do they understand the goals of the initiative? (Send us the score - 2/5 for example, for each of the two parts of the question)
That's all - just 4 quick questions - please try to send your answers within in a week and, as always, thanks for all your hard work!
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STUDY: Academic Achievement & Gestational Age
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A study appearing in the July 2012 edition of the journal Pediatrics examines the degree to which children born within the "normal term" range of 37 to 41 weeks' gestation vary in their school achievement later in life. Data was studied from 128,050 singleton births of children born between 37 and 41 weeks' gestation in a large US city. Data were extracted from city birth records to assess a number of obstetric, social, and economic variables, at both the individual and community levels. Birth data were then matched with public school records of standardized city-wide third-grade reading and math tests. Specifically, the study authors assessed (1) whether children born within the normal term range of 37 to 41 weeks' gestation show differences in reading and/or math ability 8 years later as a function of gestational age, and (2) the degree to which a wide range of individual- and community-level social and biological factors mediate this effect. Analyses showed that gesta tional age within the normal term range was significantly and positively related to reading and math scores in third grade. Achievement scores for children born at 37 and 38 weeks were significantly lower than those for children born at 39, 40 or 41 weeks. This effect was independent of birth weight and a number of other obstetric, social and economic factors.
To review the study online, go to
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2012/06/27/peds.2011-2157.abstract.
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Contact
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Keith M Cochran
PQCNC Debrouillard
Keith_Cochran@unc.edu
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