OB hospitalist partnership elevates patient safety by implementing consistent standard of care
OB hospitalist partnership elevates patient safety by implementing consistent standard of care
2 PagesChallenge: Inconsistencies in standards of care and the need to establish new processes to elevate and standardize the hospital’s L&D unit. Like many hospital departments, when it comes to the L&D unit, each physician makes his or her own clinical decisions based on their training and experience. Hospital leadership trusts that OB/GYNs are practicing the most up-to-date, evidence-based medicine from The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). But many free- standing, independent hospitals don’t have access to residency programs or a large, diverse medical staff from multiple facilities, so hospital leadership depends on their current rotation of OB/GYNs to act as the sole source of expert knowledge. But what happens if they aren’t using the most current bes
