Huddles and debriefings: improving communication on labor and delivery.
McQuaid-Hanson E, Pian-Smith MCM. Huddles and Debriefings: Improving Communication on Labor and Delivery. Anesthesiol Clin. 2017;35(1):59-67. doi:10.1016/j.anclin.2016.09.006.
Labor and delivery units are high-risk environments where one miscommunication can lead to care breakdowns. This commentary discusses huddles as a strategy to reduce communication errors and debriefings as opportunities to learn from incidents and provide support for second victims.