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Multi-institutional Cohort Study of Elective Diverticulitis Surgery: a National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Database Analysis to Identify Predictors of Non-home Discharge Among Older Adults
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Utility of a Device Briefing Tool to Improve Surgical Safety

The Safe Surgery/Safe Systems team publishes their latest research on Device Briefing Tool (DBT) as an adjunct to the Surgical Safety Checklist.

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Creating a high-performance surgical safety checklist: A multimodal evaluation plan to reinvigorate the checklist

The Safe Surgery/Safe Systems team publishes their results on a framework to breathe new life into their checklist and transform their safety culture.

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Overcoming Professional Silos and Threats to Psychological Safety: A Conceptual Framework for Successful Team-Based Morbidity and Mortality Conferences

The Safe Surgery/Safe Systems team publish their conceptual framework for team-based morbidity and mortality conferences in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.

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Refining Successful Implementation Strategies for the Surgical Safety Checklist in High-Income Contexts: Results of an International Mixed Methods Study

Meagan Elam, DrPH, MS with colleagues from the BU School of Public Health published research that identifies gaps in current implementation strategies of the Surgical Safety Checklist and provides guidance on how to address them in high-income surgical settings.

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Going beyond compliance: A qualitative study of the practice of surgical safety checklist

Singapore General Hospital’s published results in Social Science and Medicine on our collaboration looking to go beyond assessing checklist compliance and to better understand potential sociopsychological mechanisms of the variations in SSC practices.

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Perspectives on Perioperative Team-Based Morbidity and Mortality Conferences: A Mixed-Methods Study

Safe Surgery/Safe Systems team conducted a national survey of perioperative healthcare professionals to explore opinions on morbidity and mortality conferences (MMCs) and team-based morbidity and mortality conferences (TBMMs).

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Remote Assessment of Real-World Surgical Safety Checklist Performance Using the OR Black Box: A Multi-Institutional Evaluation

Safe Surgery/Safe Systems team’s latest research uses OR Black Box data to provide useful insight into surgical safety checklist performance.

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CheckPOINT: a simple tool to measure Surgical Safety Checklist implementation fidelity

Safe Surgery/Safe Systems team on a new tool, Checklist Performance Observation for Improvement (CheckPOINT), to assess the effectiveness of Checklist implementation and help facilities identify areas for improvement.

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Development of an Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Surgical Safety Checklist Through a Modified Delphi Process

The latest research from our Safe Surgery/Safe Systems team that aims to bring together two of the most powerful tools in Surgical Safety and Quality across the globe.

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Creating a high-performance surgical safety checklist: A multimodal evaluation plan to reinvigorate the checklist

The Safe Surgery/Safe Systems team publishes their results on a framework to breathe new life into their checklist and transform their safety culture.

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Utility of a Device Briefing Tool to Improve Surgical Safety

The Safe Surgery/Safe Systems team publishes their latest research on Device Briefing Tool (DBT) as an adjunct to the Surgical Safety Checklist.

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A Guide for Implementing Surgeon Resilience Initiatives: An Example of Surgical Peer Support

The Safe Surgery / Safe Systems team collaborated with the American College of Surgeons to develop the Guide for Building Surgeon Resilience.