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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 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.

Articles in this special issue explore the impact of cognition on health care activities such as patient identification, interruptions, and team communication.

Articles in this supplement discuss research tactics, cross-disciplinary thinking, and educational strategies, along with how they can contribute to large scale safety and quality improvement efforts.

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.

Articles in this special issue describe strategies to reduce infections in the intensive care unit, including human factors design, guideline use, collaborative projects, and hand hygiene compliance.

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

This collection of articles highlights efforts to improve quality and safety in academic health centers by establishing teamwork initiatives, engaging trainees in improvement, using evidence to guide care, and enhancing communication.

This supplement discusses Australian efforts to improve handover safety with emphasis on flexible standardization, communication improvement, and information sharing tactics.

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 focuses on improving safety in surgery containing articles on performance, crew resource management, skills training, and measurement.

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 features articles about human cognitive performance in different health care settings, such as the intensive care unit.

This special issue provides 11 articles on various aspects of ensuring safety in pediatric emergency care, including the use of rapid response teams and family involvement in care.

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