Podcast Summary:

In October 2021, SMFM's Patient Safety and Quality published a special statement detailing a new quality metric that healthcare facilities may use to track their rates of timely treatment of severe hypertension during pregnancy. On this podcast, Dr. Nick Burns interviews special guest Dr. Andy Combs (Chair of the Patient Safety and Quality Committee), Dr. Afshan Hameed (MFM and Cardiologist at University of California, Irvine), and Dr. John Oliver (MFM at Novant Health in Charlotte, North Carolina) to learn the criteria for this new quality metric and how facilities' application of this metric will reduce complications and mortality among patients with persistent severe hypertension.