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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.

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

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.

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

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.