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Published on: August 9, 2024
Call to Action: Quality and Simulation Professionals Should Collaborate
Amy Lu1, May C M Pian-Smith, Amanda Burden
1From the UCSF Health and Anesthesia and Perioperative Care (A.L.), UCSF School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA; Enterprise Anesthesiology Quality and Safety, Mass General Brigham (M.C.M.P.-S.), Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; Clinical Skills and Simulation Education (A.B.), Cooper Medical School of Rowan University and Cooper University Healthcare, Camden, NJ; Surgery UMMS-Chan-Baystate (G.L.F.), Baystate Health, Springfield, MA; Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine (S.A.F.), University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM; Surgery, Undergraduate Medical Education (R.V.R.), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX; Department of Surgery (D.P.S.), University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL; Surgery, Surgical Innovation (J.M.V.), Rush University, Chicago, IL; Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine (J.B.C.), Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; and Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care (R.H.S.), Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX.
Summary Statement:
Simulation is underutilized as a tool to improve healthcare quality and safety despite many examples of its effectiveness to identify and remedy quality and safety problems, improve teamwork, and improve various measures of quality and safety that are important to healthcare organizations, eg, patient safety indicators. We urge quality and safety and simulation professionals to collaborate with their counterparts in their organizations to employ simulation in ways that improve the quality and safety of care of their patients. These collaborations could begin through initiating conversations among the quality and safety and simulation professionals, perhaps using this article as a prompt for discussion, identifying one area in need of quality and safety improvement for which simulation can be helpful, and beginning that work.

