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Barriers to attendance at a tertiary hospital’s perinatal mortality meeting
BACKGROUND: Perinatal mortality multi-disciplinary team meetings (PM-MDTMs) offer a forum for multi-disciplinary discussion of poor perinatal outcomes. They ensure a thorough understanding of individual cases and present an important learning opportunity for healthcare professionals (HCPs). Attendan...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9438871/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36053388 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11845-022-03137-0 |
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author | Burke, Barbara Boyd, Sophie McNamara, Karen O’Donoghue, Keelin |
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description | BACKGROUND: Perinatal mortality multi-disciplinary team meetings (PM-MDTMs) offer a forum for multi-disciplinary discussion of poor perinatal outcomes. They ensure a thorough understanding of individual cases and present an important learning opportunity for healthcare professionals (HCPs). Attendance at PM-MDTMs in this tertiary maternity hospital has been low. AIMS: We aimed to identify barriers which may be targeted to improve attendance and engagement. METHODS: An anonymous questionnaire was developed, and all HCPs invited to participate. Demographic data on respondents was collected, as was knowledge of PM-MDTMs, their purpose and relevance to clinical practice, and barriers to attendance at meetings. A total of 78 responses were obtained and analysed. RESULTS: Self-reported understanding of the purpose and format PM-MDTMs was high (84.6% (66/78) and 65.4% (51/78), respectively), while only 50% (39/78) of respondents provided an accurate description of either. Only 50% (39/78) reported having attended a meeting in the hospital, of whom 61.5% (24/39) described the correct meeting. Of these, 37.5% (9/24) reported attending regularly and 70.8% (17/24) found the meeting relevant to their clinical practice. Of the 33.33% (26/78) who reported attending a PM-MDTM in another hospital, 73.1% (19/26) accurately described the meeting, 63.1% (12/19) of these attended regularly, and 100% (19/19) found it relevant. Three main qualitative themes emerged as barriers to attendance and were areas for suggested improvements: workload and staffing levels, meeting logistics, and lack of communication and education regarding PM-MDTMs. CONCLUSIONS: Communication regarding PM-MDTMs and their learning opportunities needs to improve. Lack of engagement is likely compounded by high workloads and staffing levels, but these issues should be surmountable. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11845-022-03137-0. |
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spelling | pubmed-94388712022-09-06 Barriers to attendance at a tertiary hospital’s perinatal mortality meeting Burke, Barbara Boyd, Sophie McNamara, Karen O’Donoghue, Keelin Ir J Med Sci Original Article BACKGROUND: Perinatal mortality multi-disciplinary team meetings (PM-MDTMs) offer a forum for multi-disciplinary discussion of poor perinatal outcomes. They ensure a thorough understanding of individual cases and present an important learning opportunity for healthcare professionals (HCPs). Attendance at PM-MDTMs in this tertiary maternity hospital has been low. AIMS: We aimed to identify barriers which may be targeted to improve attendance and engagement. METHODS: An anonymous questionnaire was developed, and all HCPs invited to participate. Demographic data on respondents was collected, as was knowledge of PM-MDTMs, their purpose and relevance to clinical practice, and barriers to attendance at meetings. A total of 78 responses were obtained and analysed. RESULTS: Self-reported understanding of the purpose and format PM-MDTMs was high (84.6% (66/78) and 65.4% (51/78), respectively), while only 50% (39/78) of respondents provided an accurate description of either. Only 50% (39/78) reported having attended a meeting in the hospital, of whom 61.5% (24/39) described the correct meeting. Of these, 37.5% (9/24) reported attending regularly and 70.8% (17/24) found the meeting relevant to their clinical practice. Of the 33.33% (26/78) who reported attending a PM-MDTM in another hospital, 73.1% (19/26) accurately described the meeting, 63.1% (12/19) of these attended regularly, and 100% (19/19) found it relevant. Three main qualitative themes emerged as barriers to attendance and were areas for suggested improvements: workload and staffing levels, meeting logistics, and lack of communication and education regarding PM-MDTMs. CONCLUSIONS: Communication regarding PM-MDTMs and their learning opportunities needs to improve. Lack of engagement is likely compounded by high workloads and staffing levels, but these issues should be surmountable. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11845-022-03137-0. Springer International Publishing 2022-09-02 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC9438871/ /pubmed/36053388 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11845-022-03137-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Original Article Burke, Barbara Boyd, Sophie McNamara, Karen O’Donoghue, Keelin Barriers to attendance at a tertiary hospital’s perinatal mortality meeting |
title | Barriers to attendance at a tertiary hospital’s perinatal mortality meeting |
title_full | Barriers to attendance at a tertiary hospital’s perinatal mortality meeting |
title_fullStr | Barriers to attendance at a tertiary hospital’s perinatal mortality meeting |
title_full_unstemmed | Barriers to attendance at a tertiary hospital’s perinatal mortality meeting |
title_short | Barriers to attendance at a tertiary hospital’s perinatal mortality meeting |
title_sort | barriers to attendance at a tertiary hospital’s perinatal mortality meeting |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9438871/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36053388 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11845-022-03137-0 |
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