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STUDY
Improved operating room teamwork via SAFETY prep: a rural community hospital's experience.
Paige JT, Aaron DL, Yang T, Howell DS, Chauvin SW. World J Surg. 2009;33:1181-1187.
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A surgical safety checklist to reduce morbidity and mortality in a global population.
Haynes AB, Weiser TG, Berry WR, et al; for the Safe Surgery Saves Lives Study Group. N Engl J Med. 2009;360:491-499.
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
Interruptions and miscommunications in surgery: an observational study.
Gillespie BM, Chaboyer W, Fairweather N. AORN J. 2012;95:576-590.
COMMENTARY
Reducing surgical complications.
Griffin FA. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2007;33:660-665.
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Development and pilot evaluation of a preoperative briefing protocol for cardiovascular surgery.
Henrickson SE, Wadhera RK, ElBardissi AW, Wiegmann DA, Sundt TM. J Am Coll Surg. 2009;208:1115-1123.
SPECIAL OR THEME ISSUE
Quality of Anesthesia Care. 
Neuman MD, Martinez EA, eds. Anesthesiol Clin. 2011;29:1-178.
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Can aviation-based team training elicit sustainable behavioral change?
Sax HC, Browne P, Mayewski RJ, et al. Arch Surg. 2009;144:1133-1137.
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Surgical team training: the Northwestern Memorial Hospital experience.
Halverson AL, Andersson JL, Anderson K, et al. Arch Surg. 2009;144:107-112.
REVIEW
Patient safety in surgery: non-technical aspects of safe surgical performance.
Youngson GG, Flin R. Patient Saf Surg. 2010;4:4.
COMMENTARY
Retained surgical items and minimally invasive surgery.
Gibbs VC. World J Surg. 2011;35:1532-1539.
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Operating room briefings and wrong-site surgery.
Makary MA, Mukherjee A, Sexton BJ, et al. J Am Coll Surg. 2007;204:236-243.
STUDY
Identifying opportunities for quality improvement in surgical site infection prevention.
Gagliardi AR, Eskicioglu C, McKenzie M, Fenech D, Nathens A, McLeod R. Am J Infect Control. 2009;37:398-402.
STUDY
Causes of near misses: perceptions of perioperative nurses.
Cohoon B. AORN J. 2011;93:551-565.
NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Hospitals collaborate to prevent wrong-site surgery.
Pelczarski KM, Braun PA, Young E. Patient Saf Qual Healthc. Sept/Oct 2010;7:20-22,25-26.
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