Effect of a cluster randomised team training intervention on adverse perinatal and maternal outcomes: a stepped wedge study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To study the effect of an intervention based on Crew Resource Management team training, including a tool for structured communication, on adverse perinatal and maternal outcomes.

Design

Stepped wedge.

Setting

The Netherlands.

Population or sample

Registry data of 8123 women referred from primary care to a hospital during childbirth, at ≥ 32.0 weeks of singleton gestation and with no congenital abnormalities, in the period 2012-15.

Methods

Obstetric teams of five hospitals and their surrounding primary-care midwifery practices participated in the intervention. In total, 49 team training sessions were organised for 465 care professionals (75.5% participated). Adverse perinatal and maternal outcomes before, during and after the intervention were a

SUBMITTER: Romijn A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6594236 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature