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Patient safety in anesthesiology has shifted focus from reducing procedural mortality to improving systems, including teamwork, communication, interdisciplinary care, and technology standards.
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This Viewpoint highlights the historical shift in anesthesiology patient safety from reducing procedural mortality to improving systems, teamwork, and technology standards.
This Viewpoint describes the history of patient safety improvements in the practice of anesthesiology, with a shift in focus from reducing procedural mortality to improving systems, including optimization of teamwork, communication, interdisciplinary care, and standards for new technologies.
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Methangkool et al. (2020) studied this question. Patient safety in anesthesiology has shifted focus from reducing procedural mortality to improving systems, including teamwork, communication, interdisciplinary care, and technology standards.
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