Improving Sleep Safety for Infants Less Than One Year of Age on a General Pediatric Floor

Background: In 2016, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) published updated safe sleep environment recommendations in order to reduce the risk of all sleep-related infant deaths. Currently, infants admitted to the UMass Memorial Children’s Medical Center are often not placed in safe sleep environments. This modeling of unsafe sleep practices by healthcare providers likely increases the prevalence of unsafe sleep practices at home. This quality improvement project seeks to increase the percentage of admitted infants placed in safe sleep environments in order to decrease the risk of sleep-related …