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PERIOPERATIVE TEAM COLLABORATION, PRE-OP HUDDLE
AND SURGICAL QUALITY RESOURCES 

ACADEMIC RESEARCH
ACADEMIC RESEARCH

Perioperative team communication through a mobile app for improving coordination and education in neurosurgery cases | Journal of Neurosurgery

WHY PRE-OP HUDDLE SUCKS
WHY PRE-OP HUDDLE SUCKS

Hospitals that try to implement team huddles, a game changer practice that impacts efficiency and patient safety, often find that for surgical teams the huddle is too difficult to sustain. Why does the pre-op huddle suck? And how do you make it work? read more here

SHIFT LEFT SURGERY
SHIFT LEFT SURGERY

“Shift left” is a software development term that means finding software mistakes early (thus "shifting left" in the timeline), before these mistakes become very costly. Chiefy brings this approach (and other Agile software development principles) to surgery - engaging earlier to correct errors, before they cause waste or harm. Read more

Team Communication in Hospitals

Why Chiefy is Not 'Slack for Surgery'

2022

Why Pre-Op Huddle Sucks

The pre-op surgical team huddle is a game-changer. It is also impossible to sustain. Here's what you can do.

2022

Breaking Functional Silos | From Software Development to Surgery

2021

How can hospitals save tens of millions of dollars annually in their operating rooms

Dreyfus, D, Nair, A, Rosales, C. The impact of planning and communication on unplanned costs in surgical episodes of care: Implications for reducing waste in hospital operating rooms. J Oper Manag. 2020; 66: 91– 111. https://doi.org/10.1002/joom.1070

2020

Improving Communication and Teamwork in the Surgical Environment Module | The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) toolkit

2020

To Err is Human | Documentary 

2018

Statement on Patient Safety in the Operating Room: Team Care | The American College of Surgeons (ACS)  

2018

Tossing Unused Surgical Supplies Wastes Millions Of Dollars, Study Finds

Zygourakis, C. C., Yoon, S., Valencia, V., Boscardin, C., Moriates, C., Gonzales, R., & Lawton, M. T. (2017). Operating room waste: disposable supply utilization in neurosurgical procedures, Journal of Neurosurgery JNS, 126(2), 620-625. from https://doi.org/10.3171/2016.2.JNS152442

2017

Changing our culture to advance patient safety | The AANS Presidential Address

Mitchel S. Berger M.D., Robert M. Wachter M.D., S. Ryan Greysen M.D., M.H.S., and Catherine Y. Lau M.D. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24289847

2013

To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System | Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on Quality of Health Care in America

2000

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