Table 1.

Priority and desirable characteristics for interviewing

PRIORITY CHARACTERISTICSDESIRABLE CHARACTERISTICS
  • Women who have delivered in Marathon in the past 10 years

  • Women who delivered either in Marathon or elsewhere before the establishment of Marathon’s cooperative family practice team

  • Women who have left Marathon to deliver in the past 10 years

  • Physicians and nurses who have attended deliveries in Marathon

  • Women who have undergone intrapartum or postpartum medical evacuation from Marathon in the past 10 years

  • Physicians, nurses, or patients who have been a part of any delivery with an adverse outcome in Marathon

  • Hospital administrators and community leaders