Quality and safety of maternity care
The importance of maternal experiences and emotional harm as a threat to safety during various aspects of care are evolving as tools to measure ...
The patient safety movement more generally, and the maternity care community specifically, increasingly recognizes that the experience of care can result in ...
Improving quality and safety in maternity care - PubMed
The implications are that policymakers who wish to improve the quality and safety of maternal and infant care, particularly around normalizing and humanizing ...
Maternal & Infant Health Care Quality | Medicaid
Nearly two out of every three adult women enrolled in Medicaid are in their reproductive years (ages 19-44), and Medicaid currently finances about 42% of ...
Prioritizing quality of care in maternal health
Quality care in health means services which are safe, effective, timely, efficient, equitable and people-centred, and deliver the health outcomes ...
Quality maternity care for every woman, everywhere: a call to action
To improve maternal health requires action to ensure quality maternal health care for all women and girls, and to guarantee access to care for those outside ...
Quality and safety of maternity care (England)
This research briefing sets out the current policies addressing the quality and safety of health services in England and discusses recent concerns
STRATEGIES AND ACTIONS: IMPROVING MATERNAL HEALTH ...
IMPROVE THE QUALITY AND SAFETY OF PERINATAL CARE. Provide evidence-based clinical practice, including utilization of standardized protocols related to pregnancy ...
Maternity services: research can improve safety and quality of care
Evidence on safety and quality in maternity care suggests a need for improvement despite some positive trends.
Maternal Levels of Care Verification - The Joint Commission
The U.S. is ranked 59th in the world for maternal mortality outcomes*. Maternal Levels of Care Verification aims to dramatically improve that position by ...
Levels of Maternal Care | ACOG
An important goal of regionalized maternal care is for level III or IV facilities to provide training for quality improvement initiatives, support for education ...
CMS Encourages Hospitals to Implement Patient Safety Best ...
One such evidence-based practice for improving patient safety and quality of care, referred to as “maternal safety bundles,” has been successful ...
Seven features of safety in maternity units: a framework based on ...
Results · Commitment to safety and improvement at all levels, with everyone involved · Technical competence, supported by formal training and informal learning.
Patient Safety Bundles For Safer Birth | AIM
Equity considerations should be foundational to every step of planning and action to address quality and safety in care, including bundle design and ...
World Patient Safety Day: Safe and Respectful Childbirth Must ...
In fact, the evidence for the role of quality of care in ensuring patient safety is clear, as poor-quality care accounts for 61% of neonatal deaths and half of ...
Many Women Report Mistreatment During Pregnancy and Delivery
Moms deserve respectful and equal maternity care. Open communication during maternity care is critical to detect potentially ...
Maternal health - World Health Organization (WHO)
Prioritizing quality of care in maternal health · Strengthening health systems and communities · Raising the importance of postnatal care · Making childbirth a ...
R3 Report Issue 24: PC Standards for Maternal Safety
01 and are designed to improve the quality and safety of care provided to women during all stages of pregnancy and postpartum. The United States ranks 65th ...
What is quality in maternity care? An international perspective
High-quality obstetric care for all women is one of the key demands of the 1987. International Safe Motherhood Initiative (Nairo- bi), the 1994 International ...
California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative |
Maternal Quality Improvement Toolkits · Obstetric Hemorrhage · Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy · Supporting Vaginal Birth & Reduce Cesareans · Other Toolkits ...