title: Setting a research agenda on patient safety in surgical settings.
abstract: A culture of safety is an achievable objective for perioperative management. Research in analysis, safety factors, alarms, instruction, and management can make this change rapidly. It is important to build the data and evidence for those practices that show improved patient outcomes. Those practices and the processes that develop them should be sanctioned by responsible organizations in active collaboration.
authors.affiliation: Office of Professional Nursing, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756, USA. Suzanne.C.Beyea@hitcock.orgSuzanne.C.Beyea@hitchcock.org
authors.forename: Suzanne C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Beyea
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kilbridge
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007431:Intraoperative Complications; D010361:Patients; D019990:Perioperative Care; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D012106:Research; D017751:Safety Management; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000009:adverse effects*