Unintended consequences in maternity care
“Being K2ed”: an unintended consequence of central fetal monitoring.
New research
Deciding whether the baby is too small or not: shifting standards
Have you ever wondered how growth charts are created?
Is your lactate meter leading you astray?
Fetal lactate testing in labour:. Are we making the same mistakes but hoping to get a different result?
Central fetal monitoring – time to deimplement?
Questions remain about the safety of central fetal monitoring systems.
Midwives must, obstetricians may: Learning new ways to read guidelines
When you put people back into clinical guidelines you can see previously invisible assumptions.
Three strikes and you are out!
Three strikes and you are out! How a guideline meant to make maternity care safer undermined good communication.
More evidence that intermittent auscultation is safe and effective
More evidence supports the safety and effectiveness of intrapartum monitoring with intermittent auscultation.
Does training in intrapartum fetal monitoring actually work?
Tell me about CTG education in your part of the world. What does it look like? Is it mandatory?
Gestational diabetes and CTG monitoring: What does the evidence say?
Is there evidence that #CTG monitoring for women with #GestationalDiabetes improves outcomes? #GDM
Does quality improvement improve quality in healthcare?
Aiming to provide care that is safe, effective, and acceptable to healthcare users is a fundamental cornerstone of healthcare services. A number of similar processes have been adopted in healthcare management, collectively known as continuous quality improvement. These processes aim to ensure that problems in care provision are identified, addressed, and resolved in a way that ensure continuous and ongoing improvements in the quality of care provided by healthcare services. […]
