Safety interventions on the labor and delivery unit.

Provide Feedback |

Submit a Case

Review

Safety interventions on the labor and delivery unit.

May 17, 2017

Kacmar RM. Curr Opin Anaesthesiol. 2017;30(3):287-293.

The labor and delivery unit is a high-risk care environment. This review spotlights the importance of safety culture in obstetric care and describes strategies to improve safety in this setting, including simulation and case review.

PubMed citation

Available at

Related Resources

Maternal and Infant Health Inequality: New Evidence from Linked Administrative Data.

February 22, 2023

Explaining the negative effects of patient participation in patient safety: an exploratory qualitative study in an academic tertiary healthcare centre in the Netherlands.

February 1, 2023

Eliminating racial and ethnic disparities causing mortality and morbidity in pregnant and postpartum patients.

January 25, 2023

Structural racism and adverse maternal health outcomes: a systematic review.

December 21, 2022

Reducing adverse obstetrical outcomes through safety sciences.

November 27, 2022

Patient and family involvement in serious incident investigations from the perspectives of key stakeholders: a review of the qualitative evidence.

August 17, 2022

The Uneven Burden of Maternal Mortality in the U.S.

August 10, 2022

Racial and ethnic disparities in obstetric and gynecologic care and role of implicit biases.

July 7, 2022

Improving communication and teamwork during labor: a feasibility, acceptability, and safety study.

March 16, 2022

Psychometric properties of the perinatal missed care survey and missed care during labor and birth.

January 19, 2022

Maternal mortality: near-miss events in middle-income countries, a systematic review.

November 24, 2021

Prevention of failure to rescue in obstetric patients: a realist review.

November 10, 2021

Wrong-patient orders in obstetrics.

July 28, 2021

Secondary traumatic stress in ob-gyn: a mixed methods analysis assessing physician impact and needs.

July 21, 2021

Effectiveness of communication interventions in obstetrics--a systematic review.

April 21, 2021

Each Baby Counts.

April 1, 2021

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

March 31, 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

Multi-professional simulation-based team training in obstetric emergencies for improving patient outcomes and trainees' performance

February 17, 2021

The impact of critical incidents on nurses and midwives: a systematic review.

February 10, 2021

Second victim experiences of nurses in obstetrics and gynaecology: a Second Victim Experience and Support Tool Survey

December 23, 2020

The second victim phenomenon in health care: a literature review.

November 25, 2020

WebM&M Cases

Lack of Sepsis Recognition Leads to Delay in Care Following Cesarean Delivery.

November 25, 2020

Association of clinical nursing work environment with quality and safety in maternity care in the United States.

November 11, 2020

Seven features of safety in maternity units: a framework based on multisite ethnography and stakeholder consultation.

October 21, 2020

Interventions for improving teamwork in intrapartem care: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials.

October 30, 2019

Patient Safety Primers

Maternal Safety

September 7, 2019

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

August 21, 2019

Delivering high reliability in maternity care: in situ simulation as a source of organisational resilience.

July 10, 2019

A safety evaluation of the impact of maternity-orientated human factors training on safety culture in a tertiary maternity unit.

June 19, 2019

See More About

Labor and Delivery

Health Care Providers

Obstetrics

Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events

Culture of Safety

To sign up for updates or to access your subscriber preferences, please enter your email address below.

5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD 20857
Telephone: (301) 427-1364

Safety interventions on the labor and delivery unit.

Maternal Safety

Connect With Us

Sign up for Email Updates

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Safety interventions on the labor and delivery unit.

Maternal Safety

Connect With Us

Sign up for Email Updates

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

PSNet Log in

Submit Your Case

Continue as a Guest

Continue Logged In

Submit Your Case

Continue as a Guest

Already have a PSNet

Account?

New Users