AHRQ Patient Safety Network

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•Device-related Complications (19)

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•Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off Problems (64)

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•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (137)

•Active Errors (109)

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Approach to Improving Safety

•Quality Improvement Strategies (152)

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•Hospitals (421)

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STUDY

Safety skills training for surgeons: a half-day intervention improves knowledge, attitudes and awareness of patient safety.

Arora S, Sevdalis N, Ahmed M, Wong H, Moorthy K, Vincent C. Surgery. 2012;152:26-31.

REVIEW

The impact of stress on surgical performance: a systematic review of the literature.

Arora S, Sevdalis N, Nestel D, Woloshynowych M, Darzi A, Kneebone R. Surgery. 2010;147:318-330, 330.e1-6.

STUDY

Rules and guidelines in clinical practice: a qualitative study in operating theatres of doctors' and nurses' views.

McDonald R, Waring J, Harrison S, Walshe K, Boaden R. Qual Saf Health Care. 2005;14:290-294.

COMMENTARY

Applying aviation factors to oral and maxillofacial surgery—the human element.

Seager L, Smith DW, Patel A, Brunt H, Brennan PA. Br J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2013;51:8-13.

STUDY

The effects of stress and coping on surgical performance during simulations.

Wetzel CM, Black SA, Hanna GB, et al. Ann Surg. 2010;251:171-176.

STUDY

Error or "act of God"? A study of patients' and operating room team members' perceptions of error definition, reporting, and disclosure.

Espin S, Levinson W, Regehr G, Baker GR, Lingard L. Surgery. 2006;139:6-14.

STUDY

Communication practices on 4 Harvard surgical services: a surgical safety collaborative.

ElBardissi AW, Regenbogen SE, Greenberg CC, et al. Ann Surg. 2009;250:861-865.

STUDY

Observational assessment of surgical teamwork: a feasibility study.

Undre S, Healey AN, Darzi A, Vincent CA. World J Surg. 2006;30:1774-1783.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Costly issues of an uncommunicative OR.

Neil R. Mat Manage Health Care. March 2006;15:30-33.

STUDY

Improving patient safety by identifying latent failures in successful operations.

Catchpole KR, Giddings AE, Wilkinson M, Hirst G, Dale T, de Leval MR. Surgery. 2007;142:102-110.

STUDY

Attitudes to teamwork and safety in the operating theatre.

Flin R, Yule S, McKenzie L, Paterson-Brown S, Maran N. Surgeon. June 2006;4:145-151.

STUDY

Patient safety climate among orthopaedic surgery residents.

Kadzielski J, McCormick F, Zurakowski D, Herndon JH. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2011;93:e621-e626.

COMMENTARY

A common body of care: the ethics and politics of teamwork in the operating theater are inseparable.

Bleakley A. J Med Philos. 2006;31:305-322.

STUDY

Teamwork in the operating theatre: cohesion or confusion?

Undre S, Sevdalis N, Healey AN, Darzi A, Vincent CA. J Eval Clin Pract. 2006;12:182-189.

MULTI-USE WEBSITE

Scottish Audit of Surgical Mortality.

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, 232-242 St Vincent Street, Glasgow, UK G2 5RJ.

STUDY

Prevention of surgical malpractice claims by a surgical safety checklist.

de Vries EN, Eikens-Jansen MP, Hamersma AM, Smorenburg SM, Gouma DJ, Boermeester MA. Ann Surg. 2011;253:624-628.

COMMENTARY

Improving operating room and perioperative safety: background and specific recommendations.

Schimpff SC. Surg Innov. 2007;14:127-135.

ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY/GUIDELINES

Recommendations for quality assurance and improvement in surgical and autopsy pathology.

Association of Directors of Anatomic and Surgical Pathology. Hum Pathol. 2006;37:985-988.

COMMENTARY

'Balancing risk, that is my life': The politics of risk in a hospital operating theatre department.

McDonald R, Waring J, Harrison S. Health Risk Soc. 2005;7:397-411.

BOOK/REPORT

Annual Benchmarking Report: Malpractice Risks in Surgery.

Cambridge, MA: CRICO/RMF Strategies; 2010.

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