TY - CHAP
T1 - Describing Team Membership During Maternal Hemorrhage Events
AU - Hale-Lopez, Kaitlyn L.
AU - Verma, Neelam
AU - Chakravarthy, Shruti
AU - Handler, Jonathan
AU - Ebert-Allen, Rebecca
AU - Bond, William F.
AU - Wooldridge, Abigail R.
N1 - This work was funded by the Jump ARCHES endowment through the Health Care Engineering Systems Center (Grant # P363). We would like to thank our study participants, as our research would not be possible without them.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - Understanding team membership is necessary to inform interventions to improve teamwork. In this study, we examine the team membership of a team managing maternal hemorrhage (MH) events, e.g., events in which the patient experiences excessive blood loss following childbirth. We performed observations and fielded a close-ended survey to understand the care processes and perceived team membership. Our results from the observations showed that the care processes consist of four phases of care, i.e., triage, labor and delivery, postpartum care, and surgical intervention. Our results from the survey showed that clinicians, even those with the same clinical expertise, perceived their team membership differently, suggesting team membership during MH events is fluid. Current strategies from literature to support teamwork in fluid teams may not be feasible during the MH event care processes. Future research is needed to develop and evaluate interventions to support teamwork during MH event management.
AB - Understanding team membership is necessary to inform interventions to improve teamwork. In this study, we examine the team membership of a team managing maternal hemorrhage (MH) events, e.g., events in which the patient experiences excessive blood loss following childbirth. We performed observations and fielded a close-ended survey to understand the care processes and perceived team membership. Our results from the observations showed that the care processes consist of four phases of care, i.e., triage, labor and delivery, postpartum care, and surgical intervention. Our results from the survey showed that clinicians, even those with the same clinical expertise, perceived their team membership differently, suggesting team membership during MH events is fluid. Current strategies from literature to support teamwork in fluid teams may not be feasible during the MH event care processes. Future research is needed to develop and evaluate interventions to support teamwork during MH event management.
KW - Fluid Teams
KW - Maternal Hemorrhage
KW - Team Membership
KW - Work System
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105017922344
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105017922344#tab=citedBy
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-96-9334-4_48
DO - 10.1007/978-981-96-9334-4_48
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:105017922344
T3 - Springer Series in Design and Innovation
SP - 310
EP - 317
BT - Springer Series in Design and Innovation
PB - Springer
ER -