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Surgical Complications

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•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (51)

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STUDY

The relationship between inpatient cardiac surgery mortality and nurse numbers and educational level: analysis of administrative data.

Van den Heede K, Lesaffre E, Diya L, et al. Int J Nurs Stud. 2009;46:796-803.

STUDY

Medical team training and coaching in the veterans health administration; assessment and impact on the first 32 facilities in the programme.

Neily J, Mills PD, Lee P, et al. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010;19:360-364.

SPECIAL OR THEME ISSUE

Risk, Safety and Reliability Special Issue.

Newbold D, Attree M, eds. J Nurs Manag. 2009;17:145-266.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Practicing on patients, real and otherwise.

Chen PW. New York Times. January 28, 2010.

COMMENTARY

A team training program using human factors to enhance patient safety.

Marshall DA, Manus DA. AORN J. 2007;86:994-1011.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Saving lives: hospitals have signed on to a six-part plan to avoid a multitude of unnecessary deaths.

Comarow A. US News & World Report. July 18, 2005;139:74,76,79.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Get me out alive.

Feldman R. The Washington Post. May 2, 2006:HE01.

AUDIOVISUAL

Chasing Zero: Winning the War on Healthcare Harm.

Austin, TX: Texas Medical Institute for Technology and the Quaid Foundation; 2010.

SPECIAL OR THEME ISSUE

Perianesthesia Safety.

Windle PE, ed. J Perianesth Nurs. 2007;22:365-448.

STUDY

Iatrogenic events contributing to ICU admission: a prospective study.

Mercier E, Giraudeau B, Giniès G, Perrotin D, Dequin PF. Intensive Care Med. 2010;36:1033-1037.

COMMENTARY

Patient safety: break the silence.

Johnson HL, Kimsey D. AORN J. 2012;95:591-601.

BOOK/REPORT

Practical Patient Safety.

Reynard J, Reynolds J, Stevenson P. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press; 2009. ISBN: 9780199239931.

COMMENTARY

In Conversation with…Barbara A. Blakeney, MS, RN

AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. July/August 2005.

STUDY

The relationship of the emotional climate of work and threat to patient outcome in a high-volume thoracic surgery operating room team.

Nurok M, Evans LA, Lipsitz S, Satwicz P, Kelly A, Frankel A. BMJ Qual Saf. 2011;20:237-242.

STUDY

Can aviation-based team training elicit sustainable behavioral change?

Sax HC, Browne P, Mayewski RJ, et al. Arch Surg. 2009;144:1133-1137.

BOOK/REPORT classic

Safe Practices for Better Healthcare—2010 Update.

National Quality Forum. Washington, DC: National Quality Forum; 2010.

STUDY

Perceptions of patient safety culture among physicians and RNs in the perioperative area.

Scherer D, Fitzpatrick JJ. AORN J. 2008;87:163-175.

COMMENTARY

Surgical team training: promoting high reliability with nontechnical skills.

Paige JT. Surg Clin North Am. 2010;90:569-581.

COMMENTARY

The normalization of deviance: what are the perioperative risks?

McNamara SA. AORN J. 2011;93:796-801.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Program encourages reporting accidents waiting to happen: the Good Catch Awards.

McCook A. Anesthesiology News. Sept 2011;37:9.

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