Ariel - Volume 11 Number 3

Executive Editors Ellen Feldman Leonardo S. Nasca, Jr. Business Managers Barbara L. Davies Martin B. Getzow News Editor Hugh A. Gelabert Features Editor Aaron D. Bleznak CAHS Editor Joan M. Greco Editorial Page Editor Samuel Markind Photography Editor Todd Demmy Sports Editor Paul F. Mansfiel

Surgeon Information Transfer and Communication: Factors Affecting Quality and Efficiency of Inpatient Care

This manuscript provides a taxonomy of surgeon and surgical resident information transfer and communication practices associated with adverse events and near misses. It also recommends 12 principles and 5 institutional culture changes to guide the re-engineering of surgical hospital environments to foster improved surgeon information transfer and communication and to decrease associated costs, adverse events, and near misses in patient care