Reducing preventable adverse events in obstetrics by improving interprofessional communication skills – Results of an intervention study

Autor: Beate Hüner, Christina Derksen, Martina Schmiedhofer, Sonia Lippke, Sandra Riedmüller, Wolfgang Janni, Frank Reister, Christoph Scholz
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, Vol 23, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1471-2393
DOI: 10.1186/s12884-022-05304-8
Popis: Abstract Background Progress in medicine involves the structured analysis and communication of errors. Comparability between the individual disciplines is only possible to a limited extent and obstetrics plays a special role: the expectation of a self-determined and joyful event meets with possibly serious complications in highly complex care situations. This must be managed by an interdisciplinary team with an increasingly condensed workload. Adverse events cannot be completely controlled. However, taking controllable risk factors into account and with a focused communication a reduction of preventable adverse events is possible. In the present study, the effect of interprofessional team training on preventable adverse events in an obstetric department was investigated. Methods The training consisted of a 4-h interdisciplinary training session based on psychological theories. Preventable adverse events were defined in six categories according to potential patterns of causation. 2,865 case records of a refence year (2018) and 2,846 case records of the year after the intervention (2020) were retrospectively evaluated. To determine the communication training effect, the identified preventable adverse events of 2018 and 2020 were compared according to categories and analyzed for obstetrically relevant controllable and uncontrollable risk factors. Questionnaires were used to identify improvements in self-reported perceptions and behaviors. Results The results show that preventable adverse events in obstetrics were significantly reduced after the intervention compared to the reference year before the intervention (13.35% in the year 2018 vs. 8.83% in 2020, p
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