Time-out: the professional and organizational ethics of speaking up in the OR. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Time-out: the professional and organizational ethics of speaking up in the OR. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Commentary
 
• Published September 2016

Time-out: the professional and organizational ethics of speaking up in the OR.

Berlinger N, Dietz E. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18:925-932.

Time-outs are a common step in the surgical checklist process. Reviewing the evidence on the practice of structured briefings, this commentary explores the ethical imperatives supporting checklists as a tactic for clinicians to raise concerns in surgery.

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