[en] In the interest of polishing the parquet approach to microscopic calculations of ground-state properties of zero-temperature quantum fluids, the authors have developed a perturbative scheme for the systematic improvement of the four-point function which retains the correct behavior of the parquet diagrams in both the small-r and small-k limits. Numerical implementation of this scheme indicates significantly improved agreement with binding energies calculated with Green's-function Monte Carlo techniques (i.e., differences in liquid ⁴He are less than 1.5%). The charged Bose gas and the hard-sphere system are also considered. Remaining difficulties in the calculations of the liquid structure function are noted and discussed. 12 references, 8 figures, 5 tables