This section provides information on actual educational tools and resources to assist health-care providers and surgical teams in implementing patient-safety efforts, including but not limited to books, articles, seminars, courses, and CD-ROMs.

Surgical Patient Safety Manual
Manuel BM, Nora PF, eds.  Surgical Patient Safety: Essential Information for Surgeons in Today's Environment.  Chicago, IL: American College of Surgeons; 2004.

ACS Surgery: Principles & Practice
Rhodes RS.  Patient safety in surgical care: A systems approach.  In: Souba WW, Fink MP, Jurkovich GJ, Kaiser LR, Pearce WH, Pemberton JH, et al, eds.  ACS Surgery: Principles & Practice.  New York: WebMD Professional Publishing; 2006.

Karl RC: Staying safe: Simple tools for safe surgery (310K PDF). Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons, April 2007.

ELECTRONIC MEDIA RESOURCES:

1. Disclosing Surgical Error: Vignettes for Discussion (DVD)
2. Communicating with Patients about Surgical Errors and Adverse Outcomes (DVD)
3. Patient-Safety Sessions from the ACS Clinical Congress:
   1. 2008 Webcast
   2. 2007 Webcast

FREE Online Books

To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System
This book addresses issues related to patient safety, a subset of overall quality-related concerns, and lays out a national agenda for reducing errors in health care and improving patient safety.

Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century.
This book recommends a sweeping redesign of the American health care system and provides overarching principles for specific direction for policymakers, health-care leaders, clinicians, regulators, purchasers, and others.

RECOMMENDED READINGS

Books

Wachter RM.  Understanding Patient Safety.  New York: McGraw-Hill; 2008.  [Amazon]

Jones RS, Way L, Cook RI, Nemeth C.  Surgical patient safety.  In: Townsend CM, Beauchamp RD, Evers BM, Mattox KL, ed.  Sabiston Textbook of Surgery.  Saunders; 2007.  [Amazon]

Marcucci L, Moritz MJ, Chen H.  Avoiding Common Surgical Errors.  Philadelphia: Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins; 2006.  [Amazon]
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Russell TR: I Need an Operation...Now What? A Patient's Guide to a Safe and Successful Outcome. Thompson Healthcare; 2008.

Articles

Clarke JR, Johnston J, Finley ED. Getting surgery right. Ann Surg. 2007 Sep; 246(3):395-403, discussion 403-5. [PubMed abstract]

Makary MA, Mukherjee A, Sexton JB, Syin D, Goodrich E, Hartmann E, et al.  Operating room briefings and wrong-site surgery.  J Am Coll Surg.  2007; 204:236-43.  [PubMed abstract] [Full text] [PDF]

Stone WM, Smith BE, Shaft JD, Nelson RD, Money SR. Impact of a Computerized Physician Order-Entry System (440K PDF). J Am Coll Surg.  2009; 208(5):960-69.

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Revised July 2, 2009