Improving safety and quality within the health care setting can be challenging and isolating. Individuals driving these quality initiatives are in great need of a supportive network to share challenges, brainstorm solutions, and/or receive guidance on specific questions around implementation. Recognizing this need, Ariadne Labs created the role of “coaches” within our organization to provide… Continue reading The role of coaching in health care: Getting better at what we do

By Dr. Neel Shah, Director of Ariadne Labs Deliver Decisions Initiative After eight years of practicing obstetrics and researching childbirth in the United States, I know as well as anyone that the American maternal health system could be better. Our way of childbirth is the costliest in the world. Our health outcomes, from mortality rates to… Continue reading Despite differences in culture, US and India fall short in childbirth in similar ways

In November 2016, Ariadne Labs implementation team leaders Nabihah Kara and Emily George were invited to Kigali, Rwanda by Dr. Eugene Tuyishime to provide implementation training of the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist to maternity providers at the Masaka District Hospital. During their training, they partnered with clinical leaders to customize the checklist and provided strategies… Continue reading Ariadne works with local champion to bring Safe Childbirth Checklist to Rwandan hospital

The Ariadne Labs Primary Health Care team has been working with countries around the world on how to improve primary health care, a cornerstone of achieving universal health coverage. The team, including lead researcher Dr. Asaf Bitton, PHC Research Specialist Hannah Ratcliffe, PHC Research Assistant Emily Wendell, Program Manager Brooke Huskey and Ariadne Labs Affiliate… Continue reading Creating a new language for primary health care around the world

By Emily George, RN, BSN, MPH Clinical Implementation Specialist, Nurse Liaison A baby died the night I arrived in Chiapas, Mexico to provide implementation training on the Safe Childbirth Checklist. The mother almost lost her life, too. She was laboring at home with a midwife when suddenly, her labor stopped progressing and the baby started… Continue reading New coaching effort enhances maternal care in Indonesia & Mexico

Every so often, a pregnant woman whose water broke the day before — maybe even two or three days before — is rushed into the urban teaching hospital where Dr. Rosemary Ogu delivers babies and trains new doctors. The mother has waited to come to the hospital and now she needs urgent medical attention.  In… Continue reading Enhancing best practices to improve childbirth care in Nigeria

Primary health care is one of the most cost-effective ways to equitably reduce morbidity and mortality and improve population health One of the most important but most neglected systems required for meeting people’s health needs is primary health care. The Ariadne Labs primary health care research team is working around the world to understand what… Continue reading Data providing important insights into strengths and weaknesses of primary health care

By Katherine Semrau, Ph.D. Growing up in West Tennessee, I have fond memories of going to see my grandparents with my family. Mind you, this trip was not on a short car trip, bus or train ride. It was an eight-hour flight in a small Cessna with me, my sister, my mom and my father—who… Continue reading What can maternal health learn from the aviation industry?

By Dr. George Molina The use of a surgical safety checklist was associated with a lower 30-day postoperative mortality rate after emergency abdominal surgery compared with the same operations performed at hospitals that did not have a checklist, according to a recent study by the GlobalSurg Collaborative in the British Journal of Surgery (BJS). This… Continue reading Using a surgical safety checklist saves lives, according to an international study