AHRQ Patient Safety Network: FOCUS: The Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists' initiative to improve quality and safety in the cardiovascular operating room.

AHRQ Patient Safety Network



FOCUS: The Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists' initiative to improve quality and safety in the cardiovascular operating room.

Barbeito A, Lau WT, Weitzel N, Abernathy JH III, Wahr J, Mark JB. Anesth Analg. 2014;119:777-783.

This commentary describes lessons learned from a multidisciplinary initiative developed to enhance safety ofcardiac surgery. The intervention focused on identifying and prioritizing hazards to design risk-reduction strategies and then disseminating these findings to enable widespread improvement.

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