Articles on Perinatal Quality & Safety

This article describes the evolution, impact, and clinical necessity of TeamSTEPPS, an evidence-based team training framework developed by the DoD and AHRQ to enhance healthcare safety through aviation-inspired communication strategies. By utilizing standardized tools like SBAR, CUS, and structured huddles, the program fosters psychological safety and ensures accurate information exchange among multi-disciplinary teams working in high-stress, high-risk environments.

Difficulties with intrapartum fetal heart monitoring have been identified as a key area of preventable harm.

Teamwork A robust perinatal safety program is multifaceted and interdisciplinary, incorporating the following components: quality improvement methodologies, implementation and human factors science, data analysis, safety bundle/evidence-based protocols, safety event review and investigation, multidisciplinary simulation, and work around TeamSTEPPS, culture of safety, and health equity. All of this work takes a village and requires ongoing collaboration between multidisciplin