Impact of a Daily Huddle on Safety in Perioperative Services.

Background: Communication failures contribute to quality gaps and may lead to serious safety events (SSEs) in the operating room (OR). Our perioperative services team experienced an increased rate of SSEs in 2020. Event analysis revealed clustered causes: communication failures and lack of timely information to prepare for cases.

Empowering Post-Surgical Patients to Improve Opioid Disposal: A Before and After Quality Improvement Study.

Background: Our country is in the midst of an opioid epidemic. Although the problem is multifactorial, one issue is the presence of excess prescription opioid medications circulating in our communities. Our objective was to determine whether dissemination of an educational brochure would improve the disposal of unused opioids after surgery.