AHRQ: Toolkit for improving perinatal safety (updated June 2017)

Summary

Toolkit for improving perinatal safety helps hospital labour and delivery units in the US improve patient safety, team communication, and quality of care for mothers and their newborns with an aim of decreasing maternal and neonatal adverse events resulting from poor communication and system failures.

Content

This toolkit is organised around three pillars –teamwork and communication for perinatal safety, perinatal safety strategies, and in situ simulations. Each pillar contains a Powerpoint® slide set, accompanying facilitator guide and tools to support change at the unit level.

It also includes the experiences of five labour and delivery units that successfully implemented the programme.