... specialopportunity to create and support patient safety protocols and guidelines intheir practice to avoid medication and tracking errors, monitor medical er-rors and near misses in their office, and foster ... pregnant mother and her unborn child. For these reasons, obstetric surgery deserves particu-lar attention to following established safety guidelines and protocols, despitethe tendency to bypass them ... care, and other treatments. In theensuing decade, they have spawned demonstration projects, developedsystem changes and measures (such as the ‘‘trigger tool’’), and trained thou-sands of doctors,...