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Communication between Providers

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STUDY

Bridging the communication gap in the operating room with medical team training.

Awad SS, Fagan SP, Bellows C, et al. Am J Surg. 2005;190:770-774.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

In just a flash, simple surgery can turn deadly.

Landro L. Wall Street Journal. February 18, 2009:D1.

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

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.

STUDY

Teamwork in the operating room: frontline perspectives among hospitals and operating room personnel.

Sexton JB, Makary MA, Tersigni AR, et al. Anesthesiology. 2006;105:877-884.

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.

AUDIOVISUAL

Limiting medical mistakes.

Maminta J. News 8 WTNH. February 3, 2012.

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.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Doctor uses 'pre-flight' checklist.

Bernhard B. The Orange County Register. April 19, 2006.

STUDY

Action research, simulation, team communication, and bringing the tacit into voice. Society for Simulation in Healthcare.

Forsythe L. Simul Healthc. 2009;4:143-148.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Tomorrow's operating room to harness Net, RFID.

Olsen S. CNET News.com; October 19, 2005.

ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY/GUIDELINES

Statement on the prevention of retained foreign bodies after surgery.

Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons; October 2005.

BOOK/REPORT

Medmarx Data Report: A Chartbook of Medication Error Findings from the Perioperative Settings from 1998-2005.

Rockville, MD: United States Pharmacopeia; 2007.

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.

REVIEW

Communication devices in the operating room.

Ruskin KJ. Curr Opin Anaesthesiol. 2006;19:655-659.

COMMENTARY

Defining the technical skills of teamwork in surgery.

Healey AN, Undre S, Vincent CA. Qual Saf Health Care. 2006;15:231-234.

COMMENTARY

A nurse-led approach to developing and implementing a collaborative count policy.

Norton EK, Micheli AJ, Gedney J, Felkerson TM. AORN J. 2012;95:222-227.

STUDY

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

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

STUDY

Surgical confusions in ophthalmology.

Simon JW, Ngo Y, Khan S, Strogatz D. Arch Ophthalmol. 2007;125:1515-1522.

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