Newspaper/Magazine Article Video games can help cut surgical errors. Citation Text: Baertlein L. Copy Citation Save Save to your library Print Share Facebook Twitter Linkedin Copy URL June 7, 2006 Baertlein L. View more articles from the same authors. This article reports on a study that found that playing video games before surgery enhanced surgical dexterity and minimized errors. Free full text Save Save to your library Print Share Facebook Twitter Linkedin Copy URL Cite Citation Citation Text: Baertlein L. Copy Citation Related Resources From the Same Author(s) Frequency of risk factors that potentially increase harm from medications in older adults receiving primary care. January 23, 2008 Seven (potentially) deadly prescribing errors. November 11, 2015 Engineering Patient Safety in Radiation Oncology: University of North Carolina's Pursuit for High Reliability and Value Creation. 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Frequency of risk factors that potentially increase harm from medications in older adults receiving primary care. January 23, 2008
Engineering Patient Safety in Radiation Oncology: University of North Carolina's Pursuit for High Reliability and Value Creation. May 6, 2015
Safer Delivery of Surgical Services: a Programme of Controlled Before-and-after Intervention Studies with Pre-planned Pooled Data Analysis. January 25, 2017
Suspicious insulin injections, nearly a dozen deaths: inside an unfolding investigation at a VA hospital in West Virginia. October 23, 2019
Seeking a safer surgery: some states crack down on doctors who perform unregulated outpatient procedures. August 5, 2009
Patient safety and health information technology conference: A newsmaker interview with Carolyn M. Clancy, MD. June 22, 2005
Hospitals try to calm doctors' outbursts: medical road rage affecting patient safety, group says. August 27, 2008
An Organisation with a Memory: Report of an Expert Group on Learning from Adverse Events in the NHS Chaired by the Chief Medical Officer. March 6, 2005
The cost of errors: Medicare's new policy could cost the average hospital $23,772: study. June 25, 2008
Intraoperative communications between pathologists and surgeons: do we understand each other? September 6, 2023
Understanding ultrarare adverse events - lessons learned from a twelve-year review of intraoperative deaths at an academic medical center. June 21, 2023
WebM&M Cases Open wider: Failure to use an interpreter results in fractured teeth and hypoxia during a simple elective operation. December 14, 2022
WebM&M Cases Sudden Collapse During Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy: Expect the Unexpected August 25, 2021
Intraoperative sentinel events in the era of surgical safety checklists: results of a national survey. March 3, 2021
Meitheal Pharmaceuticals, Inc. issues voluntary nationwide recall of Cisatracurium Besylate Injection, USP 10mg per 5mL due to mislabeling. February 10, 2021
Effects of night surgery on postoperative mortality and morbidity: a multicentre cohort study. December 23, 2020
Opioid stewardship program and postoperative adverse events: a difference-in-differences cohort study. September 16, 2020
The rise of human factors: optimising performance of individuals and teams to improve patients' outcomes. July 10, 2019
Association between night-time surgery and occurrence of intraoperative adverse events and postoperative pulmonary complications. May 8, 2019
Improving detection of intraoperative medical errors (iMEs) and intraoperative adverse events (iAEs) and their contribution to postoperative outcomes. March 6, 2019
Patterns of disrespectful physician behavior at an academic medical center: implications for training, prevention, and remediation. December 12, 2018
Use of an emergency manual during an intraoperative cardiac arrest by an interprofessional team: a positive-exemplar case study of a new patient safety tool. August 15, 2018
Statewide collaborative to reduce surgical site infections: results of the Hawaii Surgical Unit-Based Safety Program. June 20, 2018
Use of personal electronic devices by nurse anesthetists and the effects on patient safety. May 25, 2016