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Setting a Research Agenda on Patient Safety in Surgical Settings

Office of Professional Nursing, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, One Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH 03756; Suzanne.C.Beyea{at}hitchcock.org

Peter Kilbridge, MD

A culture of safety is an achievable objective for perioperative management. Research in analysis, safety factors, alarms, instruction, and management can make this change rapidly. It is important to build the data and evidence for those practices that show improved patient outcomes. Those practices and the processes that develop them should be sanctioned by responsible organizations in active collaboration.

Surgical Innovation, Vol. 10, No. 2, 79-83 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/107155170301000204


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