1 University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Crosley Memorial Nursery, Cincinnati General Hospital, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati
By simplifying the process by which telephone contacts are made, improved communications were established between a university-affiliated newborn intensive care center and some of the community hospital nurseries that it serves as a regional resource. Initiation of the improved system of communications was associated with a significant improvement in the survival of infants transferred from the community hospitals to the regional care facility.
Submitted on December 27, 1978