Obstetrical care currently requires the implementation of quality management. Efforts to improve prenatal care and institutional delivery have shifted maternal deaths to hospital settings. This mortality cannot be reduced without strong emphasis on obstetrical care safety. Implementing a system for reporting adverse events is a fundamental part of this management. This notification system allows to identify sentinel events, generate security alerts, find trends, and analyze events. The analysis is only possible by implementing validated methodologies such as barrier analysis, root cause analysis and FMEA (failure mode & effects analysis). The experience at HONADOMANI San Bartolomé shows that it is possible to implement a risk management system in our setting.

Avedis Donabedian developed the unique task of adapting quality approaches to health services. In his proposal, he placed patient safety in the core of quality management. The Ibero-American study of adverse events IBEAS demonstrated that one of the specialties where we need to address patient safety is obstetrics and gynecology. Peru was one of the first countries in Latin America to develop national proposals on patient safety. This symposium aims to present the national experience in the implementation of patient safety in obstetrical care.