The Maternal Fetal Triage Index (MFTI) is a five-level acuity index for nurses to apply to their maternal and fetal assessments when a woman presents to an obstetric unit for care in order to classify a woman’s acuity and prioritize the women’s urgency for provider evaluation based on acuity. How does the nurse use the MFTI?

How can the MFTI improve care? •Not missing abnormal presenting vital signs •Early identification of need to transfer to higher level of care •Not missing scheduled women who have complaints •Proper attention to –non-ctx pain –women not coping with labor –decreased fetal movement –possible preterm contractions @2015 AWHONN 38

The Maternal Fetal Triage Index (MFTI) is a five-level acuity index for nurses to apply to their maternal and fetal nursing assessments when a woman presents to an obstetric unit for care in order to classify a woman’s acuity and prioritize the women’s urgency for provider evaluation based on acuity.

The MFTI is a five-level obstetric acuity tool for nurses to use when they triage a woman presenting for care to a birth unit in order to prioritize the woman's urgency for provider evaluation. It is the first obstetric acuity tool developed by a professional society for …

The Maternal Fetal Triage Index (MFTI) module educates perinatal nurses about obstetric triage basics—the meaning of triage in obstetrics, the nurse’s role, and the benefits of using a systematic approach to improve the process of triage and outcomes factoring in social determinants of health, health equity, and implicit bias.

Objective: To describe the development and content validity testing of the Maternal Fetal Triage Index (MFTI), a standardized tool for obstetric triage. Design: Online survey. Participants: Participants included 15 registered nurses, 15 certified nurse-midwives, and 15 physicians from across the United States who provided maternity care.

Recently developed, validated obstetric triage acuity tools may improve quality and efficiency of care and guide resource use, and they could serve as a template for use in individual hospital obstetric units. Recommendations for quality improvement audits will be included as a component of the online resources to be released.

The Maternal-Fetal Triage Index (MFTI) is a standardized tool for obstetrical triage with good interrater reliability. 7, 8 Pregnant women are classified based on acuity using a 5-level system ranging from priority 1 (highest acuity) to priority 5 (lowest acuity).

Obstetrical triage acuity tools such as the MFTI can be used to enhance the timeliness of the evaluation of high-acuity pregnant women. Our study sup-ports the ACOG recommendation on the implementation and utilization of labor and delivery triage tools such as the MFTI. month.

Obstetric triage is the brief, thorough and systematic maternal and fetal assessment performed when a pregnant woman presents for care to determine priority for full evaluation. Qualified medical person must perform an MSE to determine if the patient has a medical emergency; should include health of the women and the fetus.