ARTICLES, BOOKS AND REFERENCES
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100 PATIENT SAFETY
200 HEALTH POLICY AND POLITICS
300 CLINICAL ARTICLES OF INTEREST
400 MY FAVORITE BOOKS
500 NEW AND INTERESTING
PATIENT SAFETY
pdf 101 The American College of Surgeons’ Closed Claims Study: New Insights for Improving Care - JACS 2007
pdf 102 Patterns of Communication Breakdowns Resulting in Injury to Surgical Patients - JACS 2007
pdf 103 Framework for Systematic Training and Assessment of Technical Skills - JACS 2007
pdf 104 Expanded Surgical Time Out: A Key to Real-Time Data Collection and Quality Improvement - JACS 2007
pdf 105 Increase in Sharps Injuries after Passage of National Needlestick Legislation - JACS 2010
pdf 106 Development and Pilot Evaluation of a Preoperative Briefing Protocol for Cardiovascular Surgery - JACS 2009
pdf 107 Incidence and Characteristics of Potential and Actual Retained Foreign Object Events in Surgical Patients - JACS 2008
pdf 108 Prevention of Perioperative Hypothermia in Plastic Surgery - ASJ 2006
pdf 109 Venous Thromboembolism in Plastic Surgery Patients: Survey Results of Plastic Surgeons - ASJ 2006
pdf 110 Teaching Cognitive Rehearsal as a Shield for Lateral Violence: An Intervention for Newly Licensed Nurses - JCEN 2004
pdf 111 Fire in the Operating Room: Principles and Prevention - PRS 2005
pdf 112 Patient Safety in the Office-Based Setting - PRS 2006
pdf 113 Thromboembolism in Plastic Surgery - PRS 2005
pdf 114 Effects of Introducing the WHO checklist JACS 2013
pdf 115 Cohort study of cleft palate UK standards CPCFJ 2014
pdf 116 Measuring Quality in Surgical Training JACS 2014
pdf 117 Retained Surgical Sponges JACS 2014
new! pdf 118 Measuring Variation in Use of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist JACS January 2015
new! pdf 119 Operating Room Efficiency via Constraint Management JACS July 2015
HEALTH POLICY AND POLITICS
pdf 201 Burwick: Escape Fire, Lessons for the future of Health Care - Institute for Healthcare Improvement 2002
pdf 202 Gawande: The Bell Curve What happens when patients find out how good their doctors really are? - New Yorker 2004
pdf 203 Gawande:The Cost Conundrum - What a Texas town can teach us about health care. - New Yorker 2009
pdf 204 Cottage Industry to Postindustrial Care — The Revolution in Health Care Delivery - NEJM 2010
     
     
     
   
CLINICAL ARTICLES OF INTEREST
pdf 301 Cleft in Navajo 1967
pdf 302 CPCFJ Craniofacial Team Navajo Patient 1988
pdf 303 Does Aptitude Influence the Rate at which Proficiency Is Achieved? JACS 2013
pdf 304 Lateral Violence: An Intervention for Newly Licensed Nurses 2004
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BOOKS THAT HAVE INFLUENCED MY THINKING AND TRAINING IN SURGERY AND LIFE
1 The Scalpel, the Sword: The Story of Doctor Norman Bethune
    by Ted Allan and Sydney Gordon, 1952
2 Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
    by Tracy Kidder, 2009
3 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
    by Thomas S. Kuhn, 1970
4 An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine
    by Claude Bernard, 1865
5 Discours de la méthode (Discourse on the Method)
    by Rene Descartes, 1637
6 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
    by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974
7 A Life That Matters: Transforming Faces, Renewing Lives
    by Kenneth E. Salyer, 2013
8 The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing
    by Lori Arviso Alvord, Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt, 2000
9 The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
    by Twyla Tharp, 2006