Obstetric Quality and Safety

Forum Chair(s)

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  Dena Goffman, MD (she/her/hers)

  Professor, Women's Health in Obstetrics & Gynecology; Vice Chair, Quality & Patient Safety
  Columbia University Irving Medical Center
  New York, New York, United States
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  Naima Joseph, MD, MPH (she/her/hers)

  Maternal Fetal Medicine
  Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School
  Watertown, Massachusetts, United States

The goal of this session is to provide an overview of existing state of quality measurement within obstetrics, to highlight the advantages and pitfalls of currently used quality measures, discuss the future of quality measurement, and share lessons learned from implementation in disparate health care settings, in order to foster advocacy, accountability, and improvement in perinatal outcomes.

Session I: Measuring Quality; Moderator: Dr. Dena Goffman
Session II: Implementing Programs to Drive Quality; Moderator: Dr. Naima Joseph

Presentations:

• 3:00 PM – 3:05 PM

  Introduction and brief remarks
  

  Panelist: Dena Goffman, MD (she/her/hers) – Columbia University Irving Medical Center
• 3:05 PM – 3:25 PM

  Currently used quality measures: advantages and drawbacks
  

  Forum Speaker: Christian M. Pettker, MD (he/him/his) – Yale School of Medicine and Yale New Haven Hospital
• 3:25 PM – 3:45 PM

  Future measures for perinatal health quality
  

  Forum Speaker: Sindhu K. Srinivas, MD, MSCE – Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
• 3:45 PM – 4:05 PM

  Incorporating health equity into perinatal quality
  

  Forum Speaker: Audra Meadows, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – UC San Diego Health
• 4:05 PM – 4:15 PM

  Panel Discussion with Q&A
  

  Panelist: Dena Goffman, MD (she/her/hers) – Columbia University Irving Medical Center

  Panelist: Christian M. Pettker, MD (he/him/his) – Yale School of Medicine and Yale New Haven Hospital

  Panelist: Sindhu K. Srinivas, MD, MSCE – Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

  Panelist: Audra Meadows, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – UC San Diego Health
• 4:15 PM – 4:20 PM

  Break
• 4:20 PM – 4:40 PM

  Implementing quality measure at the state level: lessons learned from California NTSV rates
  

  Forum Speaker: Elliott K. Main, MD (he/him/his) – Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Stanford University, California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative (CMQCC)
• 4:40 PM – 5:00 PM

  Challenges of quality implementation and monitoring: lessons learned from a safety net institution in Georgia
  

  Forum Speaker: Michael Lindsay, MD, MPH – Emory
• 5:00 PM – 5:20 PM

  Innovations in quality: Continuous Feedback During the Second Stage
  

  Forum Speaker: Sarah E. Little, MD, MPH – Brigham and Women's Hospital
• 5:20 PM – 5:30 PM

  Panel Discussion with Q&A