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STUDY

Causes of near misses: perceptions of perioperative nurses.

Cohoon B. AORN J. 2011;93:551-565.

COMMENTARY

Communication in the perioperative setting.

Cvetic E. AORN J. 2011;94:261-270.

COMMENTARY

Reducing surgical complications.

Griffin FA. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2007;33:660-665.

STUDY

The impact of organisational and individual factors on team communication in surgery: a qualitative study.

Gillespie BM, Chaboyer W, Longbottom P, Wallis M. Int J Nurs Stud. 2010;47:732-741.

STUDY

Using simulation training to improve perioperative patient safety.

Mullen L, Byrd D. AORN J. 2013;97:419-427.

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.

STUDY

Communication failure in the operating room.

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

STUDY

A policy-based intervention for the reduction of communication breakdowns in inpatient surgical care: results from a Harvard surgical safety collaborative.

Arriaga AF, Elbardissi AW, Regenbogen SE, et al. Ann Surg. 2011;253:849-854.

STUDY

Operating room teamwork among physicians and nurses: teamwork in the eye of the beholder.

Makary MA, Sexton JB, Freischlag JA, et al. J Am Coll Surg. 2006;202:746-752.

STUDY

Discrepant perceptions of communication, teamwork and situation awareness among surgical team members.

Wauben LS, Dekker-van Doorn CM, van Wijngaarden JD, et al. Int J Qual Health Care. 2011;23:159-166.

REVIEW

Noise in the operating room—what do we know? A review of the literature.

Hasfeldt D, Laerkner E, Birkelund R. J Perianesth Nurs. 2010;25:380-386.

REVIEW

Improving safety in the operating room: a systematic literature review of retained surgical sponges.

Wan W, Le T, Riskin L, Macario A. Curr Opin Anaesthesiol. 2009;22:207-214.

STUDY

Preventing wrong site, procedure, and patient events using a common cause analysis.

Mallett R, Conroy M, Saslaw LZ, Moffatt-Bruce S. Am J Med Qual. 2012;27:21-29.

STUDY

Deconstructing intraoperative communication failures.

Hu YY, Arriaga AF, Peyre SE, Corso KA, Roth EM, Greenberg CC. J Surg Res. 2012;177:37-42.

REVIEW

Human factors in surgery: from Three Mile Island to the operating room.

D'Addessi A, Bongiovanni L, Volpe A, Pinto F, Bassi P. Urol Int. 2009;83:249-257.

REVIEW

Surgical fires, a clear and present danger.

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

STUDY

Student-observed surgical safety practices across an urban regional health authority.

Spence J, Goodwin B, Enns C, Dean H. BMJ Qual Saf. 2011;20:580-586.

STUDY

Adherence to a medication safety protocol: current practice for labeling medications and solutions on the sterile field.

Brown-Brumfield D, DeLeon A. AORN J. 2010;91:610-617.

STUDY

Priority patient safety issues identified by perioperative nurses.

Steelman VM, Graling PR, Perkhounkova Y. AORN J. 2013;97:402-418.

COMMENTARY

Increasing patient safety and surgical team communication by using a count/time out board.

Edel EM. AORN J. 2010;92:420-424.

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