Quality and patient safety teams in the perioperative setting.

Michele Fusco Serino

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Quality and patient safety teams in the perioperative setting.

January 6, 2016

Serino MF. AORN J. 2015;102(6):617-28.

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Team effectiveness is a key component for safe care. This commentary describes how one organization designed and implemented a team-focused plan to enhance safe perioperative practice and explores the benefits of strategies like daily rounds, plan-do-study-act cycles, teamwork training, and dedicated project time.

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