title: Applying the generic errors modeling system to obstetric hemorrhage quality improvement efforts.
abstract: Obstetric hemorrhage is an emergency situation in which clinicians can make errors that cause women to suffer preventable maternal morbidity and mortality. Scrutinizing commonly occurring obstetric hemorrhage-related practice errors by applying the generic errors modeling system, a research-based framework, to quality improvement efforts facilitates the identification of error specific reduction strategies. The common types of errors are skill-based, rule-based, and knowledge-based active and latent errors.
authors.affiliation: Association of Women's Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN), 2000 L Street, NW, Suite 740, Washington, DC 20036, USA. dbingham@awhonn.org
authors.forename: Debra
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bingham
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006473:Postpartum Hemorrhage / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011247:Pregnancy; D017064:Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D058996:Quality Improvement; D012308:Risk Management / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States