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Surgical Quality and Safety: Current Initiatives and Future Directions

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More than a decade ago, the Institute of Medicine released a comprehensive report “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System,” addressing issues related to patient safety and laying out an ambitious national agenda for reducing errors in healthcare and improving patient safety. This groundwork led to the recognition that most medical errors were the result of communication barriers and system failures. Since then, initiatives towards re-designing system processes have made tremendous strides in reducing the number of medical errors and adverse events. This chapter discusses the current topics around patient safety including government initiatives, public reporting, human factors in surgery, surgery checklists, crew resource management, resident duty hours, and physician burnout.

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  1. Department of General Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA, 43221

    Michelle C. Nguyen M.D. & Susan D. Moffatt-Bruce M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.S.

  2. Division of Thoracic Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA, 43221

    Michelle C. Nguyen M.D. & Susan D. Moffatt-Bruce M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.S.

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  3. Division of General and Gastrointestinal Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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Nguyen, M.C., Moffatt-Bruce, S.D. (2017). Surgical Quality and Safety: Current Initiatives and Future Directions. In: Renton, D., Nau, P., Gee, D. (eds) The SAGES Manual Transitioning to Practice. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51397-3_9

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