Patient Safety During Perinatal and Neonatal Care.

Special or Theme Issue

Patient Safety During Perinatal and Neonatal Care.

February 8, 2012

Am J Perinatol. 2012;29:1-70.

View more articles from the same authors.

This special issue examines patient safety in perinatal and neonatal medicine and discusses how to improve care in these settings.

PubMed citations

Table of contents

Related Resources From the Same Author(s)

Iatrogenic Disease.

March 5, 2008

Simulation in Maternal Fetal Medicine.

June 26, 2013

Handoff Communication Tools.

January 16, 2013

Quality Improvement.

November 15, 2017

Patient Safety.

January 8, 2020

Patient Safety.

February 15, 2012

Hidden health IT hazards: a qualitative analysis of clinically meaningful documentation discrepancies at transfer out of the pediatric intensive care unit.

August 28, 2019

Safety and Reliability in Pediatrics.

November 21, 2012

Bipartisan Consensus: The Public Wants Well-Rested Medical Residents to Help Ensure Safe Patient Care.

October 5, 2016

The impact of TeamSTEPPS training on obstetric team attitudes and outcomes on the labor and delivery unit of a regional perinatal center.

February 1, 2023

Implementing the 2009 Institute of Medicine recommendations on resident physician work hours, supervision, and safety.

July 6, 2011

The psychological experience of obstetric patients and health care workers after implementation of universal SARS-CoV-2 testing.

September 2, 2020

Routine multidisciplinary review of severe maternal morbidity is associated with a reduction in preventable cases of severe maternal morbidity.

March 30, 2022

The postpartum hemorrhage patient safety bundle implementation at a single institution: successes, failures, and lessons learned,

October 27, 2021

Medication misadventures resulting in emergency department visits at an HMO medical center.

March 27, 2005

How-to Guides: Improving Transitions from the Hospital to Reduce Avoidable Rehospitalizations.

August 8, 2012

WebM&M Cases

Coming Undone: Failure of Closure Device

September 1, 2007

ASHP statement on the pharmacist's role in medication reconciliation.

February 27, 2013

Investigating the Prevalence and Causes of Prescribing Errors in General Practice: The PRACtICe Study.

May 16, 2012

The Foundations of Safety Science.

August 1, 2014

Quality of Anesthesia Care.

February 23, 2011

Prescribing Themed Issue.

October 3, 2012

Human Factors and Technology in the ICU.

July 11, 2018

Focus On: Health Care Policy and Quality.

December 6, 2017

Special Issue on Health Literacy.

October 24, 2007

2012 User Comparative Database Report: Medical Office Survey on Patient Safety Culture.

June 27, 2012

Frederick mother's burning inspires daughter's activism.

August 2, 2006

Proceedings from the European Handover Research Collaborative.

December 5, 2012

Frequency of diagnostic errors in the neonatal intensive care unit: a retrospective cohort study.

March 23, 2022

Legislative Report to the General Assembly: Adverse Event Reporting.

January 16, 2013

Handoff Communication.

October 4, 2017

Patient Safety.

May 24, 2017

You can't understand something you hide: transparency as a path to improve patient safety.

July 8, 2015

WebM&M Cases

One Dose, Two Errors

December 1, 2016

At Bellevue, a desperate fight to ensure the patients' safety.

November 14, 2012

Quality and Safety.

July 29, 2015

The role of the electronic health record in patient safety events.

January 9, 2013

A Framework for Safe, Reliable, and Effective Care.

February 15, 2017

Nurses Transforming Care.

December 2, 2009

WebM&M Cases

Missing Trauma

May 1, 2009

Quality of Care and Information Technology.

May 11, 2016

Simulation in Anaesthesia and Surgery.

May 13, 2015

Human factors, nursing and patient safety.

July 11, 2012

Health IT and Clinical Decision Support Systems.

November 12, 2014

2011 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards.

June 27, 2012

Mistakes We Make in Dialysis.

August 3, 2016

Errors and Malpractice in Radiology.

September 26, 2012

The 2016 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards.

June 28, 2017

Patient Safety Papers 6.

May 2, 2012

Disclosure of adverse events in pediatrics.

January 11, 2017

WebM&M Cases

Rapid Mis-St(r)ep

February 1, 2007

Health Information Technology.

February 4, 2015

WebM&M Cases

Transfusion "Slip"

February 1, 2004

The Patient Safety in Surgery Study.

June 20, 2007

How to Make Your Hospital Stay Safer and Cheaper: A Checklist.

November 7, 2012

Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America.

September 19, 2012

Medical Office Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2018 User Database Report.

May 2, 2018

Medical Liability: New Ideals for Making the System Work Better for Patients.

July 5, 2006

First, Do Less Harm: Confronting the Inconvenient Problems of Patient Safety.

June 6, 2012

Opioids and Dentistry.

April 11, 2018

The Science of Teamwork.

June 20, 2018

Improving Diagnosis.

November 28, 2018

Risk Prevention and Surgical Checklists.

November 14, 2012

Side tracks on the safety express. Interruptions lead to errors and unfinished…wait, what was I doing?

December 19, 2012

WebM&M Cases

Departure From Central Line Ritual

May 1, 2015

Leading Health Care Transformation: A Primer for Clinical Leaders.

August 12, 2015

Dirty surgical tools put patients at risk.

March 7, 2012

The Nurse's Role in Medication Safety, Second Edition.

January 11, 2012

Technical Series on Safer Primary Care.

January 11, 2017

Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2018 User Database Report.

April 4, 2018

Scant oversight of drug maker in fatal meningitis outbreak.

October 17, 2012

Medical Malpractice and Errors.

September 15, 2010

Eighth Annual National Patient Safety Foundation Congress: Conference Proceedings.

October 4, 2006

Overview of the Environmental Scan of Primary Care-Based Effort To Reduce Readmissions.

March 27, 2019

Improving Usability, Safety and Patient Outcomes With Health Information Technology.

February 27, 2019

Behind Human Error, Second Edition.

November 10, 2017

From Science to Implementation: AHRQ's Program to Prevent HAIs—Results and Lessons.

November 5, 2014

Patient Safety Papers.

November 22, 2006

Impact of the Care Quality Commission on Provider Performance: Room for Improvement?

November 21, 2018

WebM&M Cases

Signout Fallout

February 1, 2018

Large-scale Coordination: Health Care.

August 8, 2007

Harm to Healing - Partnering with Patients Who Have Been Harmed.

August 1, 2012

Acting Locally: Working in Clinical Microsystems CD-ROM.

October 19, 2005

Understanding the knowledge gaps in whistleblowing and speaking up in health care: narrative reviews of the research literature and formal inquiries, a legal analysis and stakeholder interviews.

September 19, 2018

Assessment of a simulated case-based measurement of physician diagnostic performance.

January 23, 2019

A Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals.

October 22, 2008

Patient Safety in Pediatric Emergency Medicine.

January 3, 2007

Early identification and evaluation of severe pressure injuries.

October 18, 2023

Considering human factors and developing systems-thinking behaviours to ensure patient safety.

February 21, 2018

Designing for Patient Safety: Developing Methods to Integrate Patient Safety Concerns in the Design Process.

October 24, 2012

Pearls, Pitfalls, and Errors in Musculoskeletal Diagnosis.

November 19, 2014

Nurse staffing, burnout, and health care-associated infection.

August 15, 2012

New Approaches to Researching Patient Safety.

January 6, 2010

Maternal deaths at MetroWest hospital prompt state probes.

August 9, 2017

Failure and rescue.

July 11, 2012

Burnout Among Health Care Professionals. A Call to Explore and Address This Underrecognized Threat to Safe, High-Quality Care.

July 19, 2017

Preventing the tragedy of misdiagnosis.

December 13, 2006

The English Patient Safety Programme.

February 10, 2010

Safety.

June 30, 2010

The Economics of Patient Safety: Strengthening a Value-based Approach to Reducing Patient Harm at National Level.

April 12, 2017

Related Resources

Factors influencing second victim experiences and support needs of OB/GYN and pediatric healthcare professionals after adverse patient events.

January 17, 2024

Sustained decrease in latent safety threats through regular interprofessional in situ simulation training of neonatal emergencies.

January 17, 2024

Neonatal near-miss audits: a systematic review and a call to action.

January 10, 2024

Vital signs: maternity care experiences — United States, April 2023.

September 6, 2023

Hiding in plain sight: inconvenient facts for patient safety in non-24/7 theatre on-site staffed obstetric units.

September 6, 2023

2022 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards.

August 30, 2023

Annual Perspective

Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality

April 26, 2023

A longitudinal study of a multifaceted intervention to reduce newborn falls while preserving rooming-in on a mother-baby unit.

October 5, 2022

The 2021 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards.

August 3, 2022

Final Report of the Ockenden Review.

April 27, 2022

Proceed with reasonable care: when legal principles inform training to prevent harm during the childbirth.

February 9, 2022

Safety, Equity and Engagement in Maternity Services.

January 12, 2022

Communication regarding adverse neonatal birth events: experiences of parents and clinicians.

December 1, 2021

Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Special Statement: Surgical safety checklists for cesarean delivery.

September 22, 2021

Cardinal Health recalls Argyle UVC insertion tray due to missing instructions for use for the Safety Scalpel N11.

September 1, 2021

Maintaining maternal-newborn safety during the COVID-19 pandemic.

May 26, 2021

Maternal and neonatal health care worker well-being and patient safety climate amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

March 31, 2021

How to do no harm: empowering local leaders to make care safer in low-resource settings.

March 3, 2021

First do no harm: practitioners' ability to 'diagnose' system weaknesses and improve safety is a critical initial step in improving care quality.

March 3, 2021

Association of unexpected newborn deaths with changes in obstetric and neonatal process of care.

January 20, 2021

Two decades since To Err Is Human: progress, but still a "chasm".

January 13, 2021

Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Special Statement: a maternal transport briefing form and checklist.

December 23, 2020

Better Safer Care Victoria.

January 29, 2020

Preventing critical failure. Can routinely collected data be repurposed to predict avoidable patient harm? A quantitative descriptive study.

January 29, 2020

Patient Safety.

January 8, 2020

Risk of wrong-patient orders among multiple vs singleton births in the neonatal intensive care units of 2 integrated health care systems.

September 4, 2019

Burnout and Resilience and Quality and Safety Programs in Obstetrics and Gynecology.

August 21, 2019

Special Section on Human Factors and Ergonomics in the Operating Room: Contributions That Advance Surgical Practice.

June 19, 2019

Patient Safety in Obstetrics and Gynecology.

May 29, 2019

Better Health for Mothers and Babies.

May 29, 2019

See More About The Topic

Labor and Delivery

Health Care Providers

Health Care Executives and Administrators

Neonatology and Intensive Care

Patient Safety During Perinatal and Neonatal Care.

Connect With Us

Sign up for Email Updates

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Patient Safety During Perinatal and Neonatal Care.

Connect With Us

Sign up for Email Updates

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Submit Your Innovations

Continue as a Guest

Continue Logged In

Submit Your Innovations

Continue as a Guest

Continue logged in

New Users to the PSNet site