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Work-Life Balance - January 2017 - Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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come, if we're being honest, not everyone in the room is paying atten- tion, and not everyone gets a chance to say they're ready for the case to begin," says Dr. Berry. "Addressing that aspect of care would improve the safety performance of many, many facilities." Additionally, create an internal system to fix problems that are iden- tified during the course of a workday. "I'm a big fan of short debriefs at the end of procedures to make sure oversights are addressed and solved," says Dr. Berry. Errors will continue to occur, because we're only human is not the mindset surgical leaders should have, says Ms. Gibbons. "Zero patient harm is obtainable," she adds. "We're a special group of pro- fessionals working in a high-impact system. There needs to be more scrutiny on the processes of care, so we can mitigate anything that's a potential risk." OSM 1 3 0 • O U T PA T I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E • J a n u a r y 2 0 1 7 SURGICAL ERRORS

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