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Safety culture and care: a program to prevent surgical errors.

Hemingway MW, O'Malley C, Silvestri S. AORN J. 2015;101:404-415.

This commentary describes the development and implementation of a process designed to enhance safety culture in a perioperative services department. The effort employed incident reporting and adverse event review and improved staff comfort with speaking up about potential safety hazards.

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