Patient safety in midwifery-led care in the Netherlands.

Objective: to describe the incidence and characteristics of patient safety incidents in midwifery-led care for low-risk pregnant women.

Design: multi-method study.

Setting: 20 midwifery practices in the Netherlands; 1,000 patient records.

Asthma education tailored to individual patient needs can optimise partnerships in asthma self-management.

This paper studies the effects of patient education, tailored to individual needs of patients as part of an asthma self-management program. A tailored education program was designed which took into account individual information needs of patients by using a feedback instrument. Totally 98 steroid dependent asthmatics entered the tailored education program, 95 patients received usual care.