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REVIEW

Surgical fires, a clear and present danger.

Yardley IE, Donaldson LJ. Surgeon. 2010;8:87-92.

STUDY

An evaluation of information transfer through the continuum of surgical care: a feasibility study.

Nagpal K, Vats A, Ahmed K, Vincent C, Moorthy K. Ann Surg. 2010;252:402-407.

STUDY

Effect of a "Lean" intervention to improve safety processes and outcomes on a surgical emergency unit.

McCulloch P, Kreckler S, New S, Sheena Y, Handa A, Catchpole K. BMJ. 2010;341:c5469.

STUDY

Observational assessment of surgical teamwork: a feasibility study.

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

STUDY

Applicability of Healthcare Failure Mode and Effects Analysis to healthcare epidemiology: evaluation of the sterilization and use of surgical instruments.

Linkin DR, Sausman C, Santos L, et al. Clin Infect Dis. 2005;41:1014-1019.

STUDY

Nature, causes and consequences of unintended events in surgical units.

van Wagtendonk I, Smits M, Merten H, Heetveld MJ, Wagner C. Br J Surg. 2010;97:1730-1740.

STUDY

Patient safety in orthopedic surgery: prioritizing key areas of iatrogenic harm through an analysis of 48,095 incidents reported to a national database of errors.

Panesar SS, Carson-Stevens A, Salvilla SA, Patel B, Mirza SB, Mann B. Drug Healthc Patient Saf. 2013;5:57-65.

STUDY

Use of failure mode and effects analysis for proactive identification of communication and handoff failures from organ procurement to transplantation.

Steinberger DM, Douglas SV, Kirschbaum MS. Prog Transplant. 2009;19:208-215.

STUDY

A systematic quantitative assessment of risks associated with poor communication in surgical care.

Nagpal K, Vats A, Ahmed K, et al. Arch Surg. 2010;145:582-588.

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.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Costly issues of an uncommunicative OR.

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

REVIEW

Towards a model of surgeons' leadership in the operating room.

Henrickson Parker S, Yule S, Flin R, McKinley A. BMJ Qual Saf. 2011;20:570-579.

COMMENTARY

Wrong site surgery.

Fraser SG, Adams W. Br J Ophthalmol. 2006;90:814-816.

STUDY

Surgical skill is predicted by the ability to detect errors.

Bann S, Khan M, Datta V, Darzi A. Am J Surg. 2005;189:412-415.

STUDY

'Skating on thin ice?' Consultant surgeon's contemporary experience of adverse surgical events.

Skevington SM, Langdon JE, Giddins G. Psychol Health Med. 2012;17:1-16.

COMMENTARY

Unintended transplantation of three organs from an HIV-positive donor: report of the analysis of an adverse event in a regional health care service in Italy.

Bellandi T, Albolino S, Tartaglia R, Filipponi F. Transplant Proc. 2010;42:2187-2189.

STUDY

Impact of resident participation in surgical operations on postoperative outcomes: National Surgical Quality Improvement Program.

Kiran RP, Ahmed Ali U, Coffey JC, Vogel JD, Pokala N, Fazio VW. Ann Surg. 2012;256:469-475.

COMMENTARY

Engineering the system of communication for safer surgery.

Healey AN, Nagpal K, Moorthy K, Vincent CA. Cogn Tech Work. 2011;13:1-10.

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.

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