Safety culture and care: a program to prevent surgical errors.
Hemingway MW, O'Malley C, Silvestri S. Safety culture and care: a program to prevent surgical errors. AORN J. 2015;101(4):404-12; quiz 413-5. doi:10.1016/j.aorn.2015.01.002.
This commentary describes the development and implementation of a process designed to enhance safety culture in a perioperative services department. The effort employed incident reporting and adverse event review and improved staff comfort with speaking up about potential safety hazards.