Confronting safety gaps across labor and delivery teams.

David G Maxfield; Audrey Lyndon; Holly Powell Kennedy; Daniel F O'Keeffe; Marya G Zlatnik

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Confronting safety gaps across labor and delivery teams.

January 15, 2014

Maxfield DG, Lyndon A, Kennedy HP, et al. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2013;209(5).

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Safety culture in labor and delivery wards appears to be suboptimal based on this survey, which found that nearly all physician, nurse, and midwife respondents had witnessed an unsafe patient situation within the past year. However, few respondents had shared their concerns with other staff either formally or informally.

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