The goal of the new study is to explore how design influences the way doctors and nurses make decisions Last year Dr. Neel Shah was visiting hospital labor floors around the country when he noticed something he hadn’t thought about before. The design and layout of each unit was different. At times, surprisingly different. In some, nurses and physicians… Continue reading Doctor-architect collaboration explores whether hospital design impacts care during childbirth

Ariadne Labs’ Associate Director of Safe Surgery, Dr. Alex Haynes, joined Harvard Chan’s This Week in Health to discuss his new research examining the relationship between C-section rates and maternal and neonatal mortality in 194 countries.  The research concludes that as the country-level C- section rate increases up to 19 percent, maternal and neonatal mortality rates… Continue reading Dr. Alex Haynes discusses what C-sections can tell us about a health system