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Faculty Hour: A Model for Interdisciplinary Quality Improvement in the Perioperative Setting

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Clinicians who are committed to quality and patient safety frequently lack the means and infrastructure to implement and sustain the interdisciplinary collaboration needed to actualize system improvement. The Faculty Hour model affords surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, and others the opportunity to meet together at the start of the day once each week to advance quality and outcomes for patients, to accelerate learning and innovation, and to foster mutual joy in work.

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  1. Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, Yamins 219, Boston, MA, 02215, USA

    Sharon Muret-Wagstaff PhD, MD & Brett A. Simon MD, PhD

  2. Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    Sharon Muret-Wagstaff PhD, MD & Brett A. Simon MD, PhD

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Correspondence to Sharon Muret-Wagstaff PhD, MD .

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  1. , Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, 1100 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 19107, Pennsylvania, USA

    David S. Tichansky, MD, FACS

  2. Minimally Invasive Surgery, Stanford School of Medicine, Pasteur Drive 300, Stanford, 94305, USA

    John Morton, MD, MPH

  3. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical, Center (BIDMC), Harvard Medical School, Brookline Ave. 330, Boston, 02215-5400, Massachusetts, USA

    Daniel B. Jones

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Muret-Wagstaff, S., Simon, B.A. (2012). Faculty Hour: A Model for Interdisciplinary Quality Improvement in the Perioperative Setting. In: Tichansky, MD, FACS, D., Morton, MD, MPH, J., Jones, D. (eds) The SAGES Manual of Quality, Outcomes and Patient Safety. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7901-8_9

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