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Surgical Complications

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•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (204)

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•Quality Improvement Strategies (192)

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STUDY

Can aviation-based team training elicit sustainable behavioral change?

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

COMMENTARY

Surgical team training: promoting high reliability with nontechnical skills.

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

STUDY

Communication failure in the operating room.

Halverson AL, Casey JT, Andersson J, et al. Surgery. 2011;49:305-310.

COMMENTARY

Mark My Limb.

O'Leary DS, Jacott WE. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. December 2004.

STUDY

Changes in safety attitude and relationship to decreased postoperative morbidity and mortality following implementation of a checklist-based surgical safety intervention.

Haynes AB, Weiser TG, Berry WR, et al; Safe Surgery Saves Lives Study Group. BMJ Qual Saf. 2011;20:102-107.

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.

STUDY

A novel method for reproducibly measuring the effects of interventions to improve emotional climate, indices of team skills and communication, and threat to patient outcome in a high-volume thoracic surgery center.

Nurok M, Lipsitz S, Satwicz P, Kelly A, Frankel A. Arch Surg. 2010;145:489-495.

STUDY

Association between implementation of a medical team training program and surgical mortality.

Neily J, Mills PD, Young-Xu Y, et al. JAMA. 2010;304:1693-1700.

STUDY

Does teamwork improve performance in the operating room? A multilevel evaluation.

Weaver SJ, Rosen MA, DiazGranados D, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2010;36:133-142.

COMMENTARY

Inadvertent Castration.

Calland JF. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. January 2004.

STUDY

The effect of facility complexity on perceptions of safety climate in the operating room: size matters.

Carney BT, West P, Neily J, Mills PD, Bagian JP. Am J Med Qual. 2010;25:457-461.

STUDY

Predictors of successful implementation of preoperative briefings and postoperative debriefings after medical team training.

Paull DE, Mazzia LM, Izu BS, Neily J, Mills PD, Bagian JP. Am J Surg. 2009;198:675-678.

STUDY

Crew resource management improved perception of patient safety in the operating room.

Gore DC, Powell JM, Baer JG, et al. Am J Med Qual. 2010;25:60-63.

COMMENTARY

Perfusion safety: new initiatives and enduring principles.

Kurusz M. Perfusion. 2011;26(suppl 1):6-14.

STUDY

Nature and timing of incidents intercepted by the SURPASS checklist in surgical patients.

de Vries EN, Prins HA, Bennink MC, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012;21:503-508.

STUDY

Use of the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire as a measure in patient safety improvement.

Watts BV, Percarpio K, West P, Mills PD. J Patient Saf. 2010;6:206-209.

STUDY

Improving operating room safety.

Hurlbert SN, Garrett J. Patient Saf Surg. 2009;3:25.

REVIEW

Enhancing communication in surgery through team training interventions: a systematic literature review.

Gillespie BM, Chaboyer W, Murray P. AORN J. 2010;92:642-657.

REVIEW

Patient safety during anaesthesia: incorporation of the WHO safe surgery guidelines into clinical practice.

Schlack WS, Boermeester MA. Curr Opin Anaesthesiol. 2010;23:754-758.

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.

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