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In this issue:

Articles
•	The Challenges and Opportunities for Reducing Risk in Surgery
•	Malpractice Claims Involving Surgeons
•	Delayed Diagnosis of Post-operative Complication
•	Surgeons Fixing Communication Errors
•	Simulation-based Team Training: The Physician Participant’s Perspective
•	Chaos in the OR
•	Surgery Data Belie Slip of Knife Myth
•	When We Err
•	Death By Complication
•	Surgeons and Error Disclosure
•	Harvard Teaching Hospitals Talk to Improve Communication Among Surgeons
•	Attending Needed at Bedside for Emergency Abdominal DX
•	Patient Status Changes “Trigger” Call to MD
•	Tips for Safer Surgical Practice from CRICO/RMF
•	Assumptions, Lack of Structure in Handoffs
•	Are Intact Surgical Teams Possible for Safety?
•	A New Paradigm for Surgical Training
•	Inadequate Supervision In The O.R.
•	Test Ordered but Results Not Pursued
•	Legal Issue: Informed Consent for Surgery Patients
•	Consent for Elective Procedures
•	Openness and Caution in Disclosing Adverse Events
Video
•	A Case for Patient Safety: Surgical Chief’s Mistake Could Happen to Anybody
Interactive Learning
•	Lessening the Risk to a Surgical Patient of Incurring a Preventable Error

Target Area: Making Surgery Safer

September 2009

Exercise: Lessening the Risk to a Surgical Patient of Incurring a Preventable Error

Score points and prevent harm to a surgical patient with successful choices through a pre-op and post-op interactive decision tree.