Surgical Patient Care

The Burning Platform: Improving Surgical Quality and Keeping Patients Safe.- Risk Factors and Epidemiology of Surgical Safety.- Concepts and Models of Safety, Resilience, and Reliability.- Surgery through a Human Factors and Ergonomics Lens.- The Relationship between Teamwork and Patient Safety.- Enterprise and Human Factors Risk Management in Healthcare.- The Patient Experience: An Essential Component of High-Value Care and Service.- Patients and Families as Co-Producers of Safe and Reliable Outcomes.- Tools and Strategies for Continuous Quality Improvement and Patient Safety.- New Surgical Technology Implementation and Patient Safety.- Organizational Learning and Cultural Determinants of Safety.- The Role of Architecture and Physical Environment in Hospital Safety Design.- Building Surgical Expertise through the Science of Continuous Learning and Training.- Promoting Occupational Wellness and Combating Professional Burnout in the Surgical Workforce.- Executive Leadership and SurgicalQuality: A Guide for Senior Hospital Leaders.- Information Technology Infrastructure, Management and Implementation: The Rise of the Emergent Clinical Information System and the Chief Medical Information Officer.- Redesigning Hospital Alarms for Reliable and Safe Care.- Implementation Science: Translating Research into Practice for Sustained Impact.- The Leadership Role: Designing Perioperative Surgical Services for Safety and Efficiency.- Operating Room Management, Measures of OR Efficiency and Cost Effectiveness.- The Science of Delivering Safe and Reliable Anesthesia Care.- Enhanced Recovery After Surgery: ERAS.- The Next Frontier: Ambulatory and Outpatient Surgical Safety and Quality.- Human Factors and Operating Room Design Challenges.- Diagnostic Error in Surgery and Surgical Services.- Preventing Perioperative 'Never Events'.- Health Care Associated Infections in Surgical Practice.- Safer Medication Administration Through Design and Ergonomics.- Preventing Venous Thromboembolism Across the Surgical Care Continuum.- Preventing Perioperative Positioning and Equipment Injuries.- Challenges in Preventing Electrical, Thermal, and Radiation Injuries.- Improving Clinical Performance by Analyzing Surgical Skills and Operative Errors.- Perioperative Risk and Management of Surgical Patients.- Managing the Complex High-Risk Surgical Patient.- Geriatric Surgical Quality and Wellness.- Patient Transitions and Handovers across the Continuum of Surgical Care.- Failure to Rescue and Failure to Perceive Patients in Crisis.- A Quiet Revolution: Communication and Disclosing about Unexpected Outcomes and Resolving Patient Harm.- It's My Fault: Personal Accountability and the Role of the Risk Manager in Creating Patient Safety.- Capturing, Reporting and Learning from Adverse Events.- How not to Run in Incident Investigation.- Multi-Institutional Learning and Collaboration to Improve Quality and Safety.- Lessons Learned from Anesthesia Registries about Surgical Safety and Reliability.- Use of Surgical Registry Data to Improve Outcomes.- How regulators Assess Safety and Quality in Surgical Services.- The Perioperative Surgical Home: The New Frontier.- Surgical Medical Education Program Accreditation and the Clinical Learning Environment: Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality.- Affordable Care Act, Public Legislation and Professional Self-Regulation: Implications for Public Policy.- Maintaining Surgical Safety and Quality in Rural and Remote Settings.- Global Surgery: Progress and Challenges in Surgical Quality and Patient Care.- Surgical Safety in Developing Countries: Middle East, North Africa and Gulf Countries.- Future Directions of Surgical Safety.