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Quality and value have intersecting influence on the safety of health care. Articles in this special issue explore key principles of safe orthopedic care for both adult and pediatric patients. Topics covered include leadership's role in implementing sustainable improvement, postsurgery patient education as a safety tactic, and the impact of surgical volume on safe, high-quality care.

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

Skills in studying, designing, implementing, and measuring improvement initiatives are necessary to ensure broad transfer of innovations. Articles in this special issue offer insights from an international consensus-building session that explored methods of creating actionable information from health care improvement work. In the editorial, the authors suggest that guidance is needed to help investigators to enhance the rigor and transferability of results to support systemwide learning and improvement.

This special issue covers elements of safe care delivery in neurosurgery and features articles exploring the use of simulation, checklists, and the Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle in designing safety and quality improvement initiatives for this setting.

Articles in this special issue discuss strategies to improve safety in anesthesia, including simulation training, perioperative checklists, and practice guidelines.

With a focus on advancing education for physicians and trainees, articles in this special issue explore major patient safety themes such as errors and accountability, disclosure and coping, hand-offs, never events, patient safety organizations, and systems failures in medical practice.

This special issue explores safety in anesthesia, including safety culture, incident reporting, and handoffs.

This special issue contains articles on progress made in patient safety since the landmark Institute of Medicine report, Crossing the Quality Chasm.

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 is the fifth in a series of special issues devoted to exploring Canadian patient safety organizational and strategic improvement efforts. The articles highlight work related to topics including critical occurrence review, hand hygiene compliance, and effective handoffs.

This special issue provides articles that discuss leadership roles, human factors, risk management, and data collection concepts that promote patient safety.

This journal supplement contains numerous articles, reviews, and commentaries pertaining to patient safety–related activities and research in the United Kingdom.

Articles in this supplement draw from labor, delivery, and obstetric safety reports to provide insights for safe practice in obstetrics.

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.

Articles in this special issue cover numerous aspects of patient safety in obstetric care: teamwork training, simulation, communication, and process improvement strategies.

This special issue covers topics related to implementing successful patient safety and quality educational initiatives, such as curriculum development, interdisciplinary class structure, and impact measurement.

This special issue spotlights reviews and original research on medication errors in a variety of environments, both practical and theoretical.

This article introduces a special issue on improving safety in surgery, which contains articles on performance, crew resource management, skills training, and measurement.

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