A major weakness in our health research enterprise today is the failure to effectively, efficiently and rapidly translate knowledge into improved quality of care, better patient outcomes and reduced health care costs. The specific aims of the Neonatal Interdisciplinary Capacity Enhancement (NICE) Research Team are to develop new methods and models of knowledge translation to improve quality of neonatal care, enhance inter-disciplinary, inter-institutional and collaborative research and increase training and mentoring opportunities for trainees and new researchers. Specifically, this team will be reviewing and evaluating expert opinion from hospitals across the country, making evidence from the published literature more readily accessible, implementing Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) strategies, pooling data through multi-organizational collaborations and using data driven methods for improving quality of care.

The NICE team is composed of an interdisciplinary research team with broad expertise in quality improvement and is organized into three research groups:

• Data and Knowledge Management Group
• Development of Knowledge Translation Methods Group
• Development of Knowledge into Practice and Policy Group.