Background A high variety of team interventions aims to improve team performance
outcomes. In 2008, we conducted a systematic review to provide an overview of the scientific …

Background Quality improvement collaboratives (QIC) have proliferated internationally, but
there is little empirical evidence for their effectiveness. Method We searched Medline …

Objectives: We describe the importance of interprofessional care in modern critical care
medicine. This review highlights the essential roles played by specific members of the …

Purpose To determine the effectiveness of patient safety culture strategies to improve
hospital patient safety climate. Data sources Electronic search of the Cochrane Library …

Background A growing body of peer-reviewed studies demonstrate the importance of safety
culture in healthcare safety improvement, but little attention has focused on developing a …

Annually, approximately 2 million patients suffer with healthcare-associated infections (HAIs)
in the USA, and nearly 90,000 are estimated to die. The overall direct cost of HAIs to …

Objectives To evaluate the extent to which intensive care units participating in the initial
Keystone ICU project sustained reductions in rates of catheter related bloodstream …

Breakdowns in teamwork that lead to surgical flow or operative disruptions are exceedingly
common, having been noted at a rate of 17.4 per hour in one cardiac surgery study19 and at …

Objective: The aim of this study was to establish if enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS)
and fast track surgery (FTS) protocols are associated with reduction in healthcare …

Checklists are common tools used in many industries. Unfortunately, their adoption in the
field of medicine has been limited to equipment operations or part of specific algorithms. Yet …