This publication presents patient safety concepts for anesthesia practice, including decision aids to educate and empower patients about anesthesia choice, environmental hazards, interpersonal communication, team training, and use of technology and simulation as educational tools.

Articles in this special issue apply safety concepts to reducing preventable patient harm in otolaryngology. The reviews highlight systems science, collaboration, leadership models, and patient experience as important to moving safety innovation forward in this specialty.

Team-based care has been adopted in various specialties as a strategy to reduce handoff errors and omissions. Highlighting the work of a collaborative project to apply team science to oncology, articles in this special issue explore topics such as engaging patients as team members, the role of psychological safety, and use of shared mental models to augment cancer care.

Teamwork is a key element of patient-centered care, but evidence regarding its use in the primary care environment is limited. Articles in this special issue examine the reasons for this shortcoming, including the impact of health coaches, storytelling, team training, and patient engagement tactics in this setting.

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