Introducing a quality improvement approach: The PDSA cycles
What is quality in health care? Quality can be defined in many ways but in healthcare we regard it as an element of our performance that ensures that our services …
Course: Retinopathy of Prematurity: Practical Approaches to Prevent Blindness
A practical tool for ROP screening
In this step, we share a practical tool, the ‘ROP classification and decision making’ job aid. This downloadable infographic summarises what we have learned this week about the classification of …
Managing ROP follow up
Adapted from the ‘Guideline for the Screening and Treatment of Retinopathy of Prematurity’ published by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, United Kingdom, 2008. At every screening examination …
Acknowledgements
Many thanks from the course team: Lead educators: Professor Clare Gilbert, Professor of International Eye Health and Dr Daksha Patel, Assistant Professor International Eye Health, London School of Hygiene & …
What is advocacy?
Advocacy has a role to play in any eye care initiative. It can help individuals or organisations to obtain more resources, and it can support programme implementation and service delivery. …
Understanding monitoring for ROP
Although blindness from ROP is almost entirely avoidable preterm infants can still become blind, even in settings where services to detect and manage ROP are in place. The effectiveness of …
What’s next?
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine offers many further study options related to what you have learnt and discussed over the duration of this course. Details of MSc, …
How to set up and manage an effective ROP programme: A case study from India
In this video on this step, GVS Murthy shares his experience in guiding the pilot ROP programme in India over a period of four years. Based on the success of …
Anatomy of a baby’s eye
Click to expand In a baby born at term the eye has an anterior-posterior diameter of about 16mm and it continues to grow slowly over years to about 23 mm. …
Welcome to the course and week 1
Watch the short video on this page where our lead educators, Professor Clare Gilbert and Dr Daksha Patel, introduce you in more detail to the topics you’ll explore in Week …
QI case study: Improving oxygen saturation management, part 2
In this step we return to our Quality improvement (QI) case study from week 3. This case study has been adapted and simplified from ‘Oxygen saturation histogram monitoring to reduce …
QI case study: Using PDSA to improve oxygen saturation management
Managing oxygen saturation range in the preterm infant care is always a challenge, even in high resource settings. In this activity we examine the quality improvement (QI) action taken by …
QI case study: Improving ROP screening in the NICU
Each week we follow a hypothetical case study illustrating how a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) team uses quality improvement (QI) and Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles to resolve problems with their …
Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP): Parental Involvement
Adapted from ‘Involving the parents of preterm babies.’ Comm Eye Health Vol. 30 No. 99 2017 pp 60-61 and an interview with the mother of a preterm baby in the …
QI stage 1: Analysing the problem
Quality improvement (QI) is a process which first recognises the present outcomes from health care provision and then reflects on possible actions to provide a better outcomes. QI is a …
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Retinopathy of Prematurity: Practical Approaches to Prevent Blindness