1. National Partnership for Maternal Safety
- Author
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Barbara S. Levy, Jed B. Gorlin, David C. Lagrew, Debra Bingham, Dena Goffman, Barbara M. Scavone, Lisa Kane Low, Elliott K. Main, and Patricia L. Fontaine
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Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice ,Safety Management ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Inservice Training ,Consensus ,Standardization ,Best practice ,MEDLINE ,Critical Care Nursing ,Pediatrics ,Risk Assessment ,Patient safety ,Risk Factors ,Pregnancy ,Early Medical Intervention ,Maternity and Midwifery ,Health care ,medicine ,Humans ,Blood Transfusion ,Maternal Health Services ,Cooperative Behavior ,Quality Indicators, Health Care ,Patient Care Team ,Evidence-Based Medicine ,business.industry ,Postpartum Hemorrhage ,Benchmarking ,medicine.disease ,Quality Improvement ,United States ,Surgery ,Maternal Mortality ,Treatment Outcome ,Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care ,Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine ,General partnership ,Practice Guidelines as Topic ,Interdisciplinary Communication ,Female ,Patient Safety ,Medical emergency ,Emergency Service, Hospital ,Working group ,Risk assessment ,business ,Delivery of Health Care ,Patient Care Bundles - Abstract
Hemorrhage is the most frequent cause of severe maternal morbidity and preventable maternal mortality and therefore is an ideal topic for the initial national maternity patient safety bundle. These safety bundles outline critical clinical practices that should be implemented in every maternity unit. They are developed by multidisciplinary work groups of the National Partnership for Maternal Safety under the guidance of the Council on Patient Safety in Women's Health Care. The safety bundle is organized into four domains: Readiness, Recognition and Prevention, Response, and Reporting and System Learning. Although the bundle components may be adapted to meet the resources available in individual facilities, standardization within an institution is strongly encouraged. References contain sample resources and "Potential Best Practices" to assist with implementation.
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- 2015