This website contains summaries and abstracts of some of the emerging and important literature on patient safety. These summaries are intended for health professionals interested in learning about patient safety, and in preventing medical errors. This site is maintained by Dr. Gautham Suresh, a physician from New Hampshire, USA.
Team training in Med School The theory and practice of teams and teamwork should be an essential component of medical student education
When brain surgery goes wrong Four major types of factors contributed to wrong-site craniotomy on a review of neurosurgery cases
Resident fatigue in sentinel events None of the sentinel events reviewed by the authors or reported to the Joint Commission involved resident fatigue as a contributory factor
