AHRQ's Quality & Patient Safety Programs by Setting: Hospital Labor and Delivery Units
´óÏóÊÓƵSafety Program for Perinatal Care – I aims to improve the patient safety culture of labor and delivery (L&D) units and decrease maternal and neonatal adverse events resulting from poor communication and system failures. The Safety Program for Perinatal Care is organized around three program pillars: Teamwork and Communication skills, Perinatal Safety Strategies, and In Situ Simulation training. This toolkit was developed to support implementation of the three program pillars.
´óÏóÊÓƵSafety Program for Perinatal Care – II. Following the release of AHRQ's Toolkit for Improving Perinatal Safety, a second bundle of ´óÏóÊÓƵtools is available to improve the safety culture of labor and delivery (L&D) units. The second bundle provides resources that align the toolkit’s adaptive care processes with the clinical care processes recommended in the . The new tools are designed to help L&D units reduce obstetric hemorrhage and severe hypertension in pregnancy, two leading known causes of preventable maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity in the United States.
