By Suha Patel. As a maternal health provider, I would love to know what women think about the care my colleagues and I provide. I need more comprehensive, high quality information about the patient experience in the maternal health care system than my online reviews or the latest discussion about home birth vs facility birth on a pregnancy help website. Projects in low-income countries are engaging patients in the conversation on how to improve safe and respectful care in maternity centers worldwide. Through a quick PubMed search, I can read about what women in Tanzania think of the quality of obstetric care they receive, yet I can’t find a systematic, large-scale effort to understand patient perceptions of quality and satisfaction with maternal care in the U.S… read more