Huddles and debriefings: improving communication on labor and delivery.

McQuaid-Hanson E, Pian-Smith MCM. Anesthesiol Clin. 2017;35:59-67.

Labor and delivery units are high-risk environments where one miscommunication can lead to care breakdowns. This commentary discusses huddles as a strategy to reduce communication errors and debriefings as opportunities to learn from incidents and provide support for second victims.

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