ESC Care Tool

The ESC Care Tool© is currently being studied for its safety and efficacy within the Northern New England Perinatal Quality Improvement Network (NNEPQIN) and Perinatal Neonatal Quality Improvement Network of Massachusetts (PNQIN), as well as in several statewide and provincial perinatal QI collaboratives (PQC). A national NIH-funded multi-center step-wedge cluster randomized clinical trial is now also underway with aims of assessing short- and long-term outcomes associated with use of the ESC Care Tool in the care of opioid exposed newborns in varied clinical settings and with varied populations across the United States. At this time, the ESC Care Tool developers have asked that the ESC Care Tool and its formal training materials and resources be shared only with hospitals participating within a statewide or provincial PQC that has the commitment and infrastructure to perform a formal QI initiative that includes implementing the ESC Care Tool in a structured and systematic manner with formal training in its development and implementation, inter-rater reliability testing, and tracking of efficacy and safety outcomes.

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If your hospital is participating in the NNEPQIN, PNQIN, or a previously approved statewide or provincial PQC ESC Care Tool QI Initiative, or you serve in a leadership role in your state’s or province’s PQC and are interested in learning more about using the ESC Care Tool and its training materials in a formal PQC QI initiative, please email NNEPQIN@hitchcock.org with the following:

Your Name & Title:
Your Hospital Affiliation:
Your PQC’s Name:
Your PQC Leadership Role:
Your Email Address:

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Following this email, members and leaders of previously-approved PQCs will be given a link and password to the password-protected ESC Care Tool webpage. Materials found here may be used by participating PQC leaders, hospitals and their staff but are not to be shared publicly beyond these individuals/settings.

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If you do not hold a leadership role in your affiliated PQC, but think that your PQC would be interested in a formal ESC Care Tool QI initiative, we ask that you please contact your PQC leader(s) and ask that they reach out to us directly.

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Thank you kindly,
NNEPQIN and The ESC Care Tool Development Team