Meeting
Abstract Number: 178
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Baystate Children’s Hospital serves a population that is vulnerable to unsafe sleep practices. By July 2017, there were 6 cases of accidental infant deaths in Hampden County MA, attributed to unsafe sleeping practices, primarily due to co-sleeping. In Springfield, MA, infant mortality rate (9.2%) is double that of the state rate (4.4%). Rates of […]
Abstract Number: 238
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: The 2011 AAP policy statement regarding recommendations for a safe infant sleeping environment included hospitalized infants, but unsafe sleep practices continue to be common in hospitalized infants. Safe sleep position compliance was observed to be low at Baystate Chidlren’s Hospital (BCH), as described in a prior abstract (http://abstract.staging.hospitalmedicine.org/abstract/improving-infant-safe-sleep-practices-in-the-inpatient-setting-using-qi-methodology/). Interventions designed to improve rates of […]