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Matthew M. Cooper, MD

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I read with great interest the article by Lingard et al¹ and the accompanying critique describing the effective use of preoperative checklists and team briefing among operating room teams to reduce communication failures. The authors are to be commended on their pursuits and demonstration of the significant reduction in communication failures and the functional utility and critical impact of such safety tools on decision making and patient care.

We are at the brink of a cultural change in our systemic understanding of patient safety and quality and how to best care for patients. Many of the authors' presented concepts are worthy of emphasis. I will further suggest possibilities for even greater impact on the basis of the extensive experience my colleagues and I have had in the application of proven safety practices to health care, derived from high-reliability organizations such as aviation and nuclear power.

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