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This special issue exploring patient safety in Canada highlights topics such as teamwork, medication reconciliation, and diagnostic error.

This special issue contains articles exploring safety improvement efforts in emergency medical services.

This special issue includes articles discussing safety in anesthesiology practice as well as quality improvement innovations.

This special issue explores workplace relationships and their effect on nursing care.

This collection of articles covers issues important to safety during labor and delivery, including teamwork, evidence-based care, and safety culture.

This special issue contains articles exploring patient safety, risk, and reliability from both theoretical and practical standpoints.

This special series of articles highlights the progress and current state of patient safety since the landmark IOM report. The series was developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) as a method to critically evaluate their efforts, and those of their grantees, in funding more than 230 patient safety projects. The compilation showcases AHRQ's efforts to catalyze innovation and advance knowledge in patient safety, reflected in part by the articles in this series. An introductory editorial highlights themes that should drive the next 10 years of patient safety progress, which include changing safety culture, increasing transparency in providing care and examining risk, embracing the power of multidisciplinary teams, realizing the benefits of information technology, and approaching every issue through the patient's eyes.

This special issue explores the intersection of emergency medicine, radiology, and pediatrics in the context of care provision in the emergency department and covers elements such as team communication, culture, and patient safety.

This collection of articles shares best practices implemented in Canada to improve patient safety through disclosure processes, teamwork development, medication safety measures, and safety culture.

This special issue contains articles focusing on ergonomic research areas that intersect with patient safety, such as team management, work design, and safety culture.

This issue includes articles that explore successful multidisciplinary efforts to improve patient safety, including medication risk assessment, system improvement, and patient involvement.

This special issue includes articles on the application of high reliability organization (HRO) theory in health care, the role of sensemaking, HRO cultures, and policies that support reliability.

This special issue includes numerous articles reviewing the activities and successes of the patient safety movement outside the United States.