The current standard of rounding on the Antepartum service involves a preliminarily bedside encounter with patients between 5-7am by a resident +/- medical student before an attending physician-led Antepartum team discussion from 8-9am. The patient is then rounded on for a second time in the late morning by the entire Antepartum team where patient concerns are heard and care plans for the day are relayed/reiterated/cemented.

For certain patients with appropriate clinical risk factors, our service has adopted a policy of "discovery rounding". This method involves solely electronic health record chart review prior to the 8am attending-led Antepartum team discussion where the patient's overnight events are "discovered", clinical courses discussed, and daytime plans proposed. "Discovery rounding" consolidates bedside physician-patient encounters to one mid-morning interaction, forgoing early morning disturbances.

For certain patients with appropriate clinical risk factors, our service has adopted a policy of "discovery rounding". This method involves solely electronic health record chart review prior to the 8am attending-led Antepartum team discussion where the patient's overnight events are "discovered", clinical courses discussed, and daytime plans proposed. "Discovery rounding" consolidates bedside physician-patient encounters to one mid-morning interaction, forgoing early morning disturbances.

The CAT measures patients' perceptions of physician communication across 15 specific behaviors, such as listening carefully, showing respect, explaining information clearly, and spending sufficient time with the patient. Each item is rated on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from "Poor" to "Excellent." By focusing on the frequency of "Excellent" ratings, the CAT provides a robust, patient-centered measure of the effectiveness and impact of physician communication during hospitalization.

A 10-item self-report questionnaire, validated for both postpartum and antepartum use, in which each item is scored 0-3 (total 0-30), with higher scores indicating greater depressive symptoms and a common cut-off of ≥13 suggesting possible clinical depression.