Patient Safety, An Issue of Surgical Clinics

This issue of Surgical Clinics of North America focuses on Surgical Patient Safety.

Articles include:

• Human factors approach to surgical patient safety
• Teamwork and surgical team based training
• Effective handoffs and transfers in surgical patient safety
• Effective implementation and utilization of checklists in surgical patient safety
• Standardized care pathways as a means to improve patient safety
• Evolution of risk calculators and the dawn of artificial intelligence in predicting patient complications
• Remote monitoring technology/use of telemedicine to detect and address surgical complications
• Rescue after surgical complications
• The economics of surgical patient safety
• The trainee’s role in patient safety/training residents and medical students in surgical patient safety
• The second victim: building surgeon resiliency after complications
• Processes to create a culture of surgical patient safety
• Provision of defect free care: implementation science in surgical patient safety
• Administrative and registry databases for patient safety tracking and quality improvement
• And more

Specifications:

• Volume 101-1
• Published: November 18, 2020
• Editor: Dr. Feibi Zheng
• Consulting Editor: Ronald F. Martin