Effective communication is a hallmark of safe patient care. Challenges to effective
interprofessional communication in maternity care include differing professional …

The crew resource management training program was developed by the aviation industry in
response to critical and fatal errors by the flight team. This article examines the evolution and …

Objectives: Use of failure-to-rescue (FTR) as an indicator of hospital quality has increased
over the past decade, but recent authors have used different sets of complications and …

Background Despite widespread emphasis on promoting 'assertive communication'by care
givers as essential to patient-safety-improvement efforts, little is known about when and how …

Objective: To test the psychometric soundness of a teamwork climate survey in labor and
delivery, examine differences in perceptions of teamwork, and provide benchmarking data …

Objective To evaluate responses of registered nurse members of the Association of
Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) to a survey that sought their …

Context: This study was part of the Methods of Assessing Response to Quality Improvement
Strategies (MARQuIS) research project investigating the impact of quality improvement …

BACKGROUND: Emergency status adversely affects surgical outcomes. Predictors of
increased morbidity of emergency general surgery are unknown. We determined predictors …

Objective: To determine the incidence and risk factors for maternal morbidity during
childbirth hospitalization. Methods: Maternal morbidities were determined using ICD9-CM …

Failure to rescue (FTR) was first defined in 1992 in a landmark article by Silber and
colleagues as the rate of mortality among patients with a complication. 1 The FTR rate is …