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The future vision of simulation in healthcareDavid M Gaba
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
Simul Healthc 2:126-35. 2007..The future of simulation in healthcare depends on the commitment and ingenuity of the healthcare simulation community to see that improved patient safety using this tool becomes a reality...- Adapting space science methods for describing and planning research in simulation in healthcare: science traceability and Decadal SurveysDavid M Gaba
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
Simul Healthc 7:27-31. 2012..Decadal Surveys have unique characteristics, especially their extensive engagement with the research community, and their recommendations have generally been highly influential with policy-makers and legislators... 
The future vision of simulation in health careD M Gaba
Center for Immersive and Simulation based Learning, Stanford University, Anesthesia Service, 112A, VA Palo Alto HCS, 3801 Miranda Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
Qual Saf Health Care 13:i2-10. 2004..The future of simulation in health care depends on the commitment and ingenuity of the health care simulation community to see that improved patient safety using this tool becomes a reality...
Patient safety: fatigue among clinicians and the safety of patientsDavid M Gaba
Patient Safety Center of Inquiry, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, USA
N Engl J Med 347:1249-55. 2002- Differences in safety climate between hospital personnel and naval aviatorsDavid M Gaba
Patient Safety Center of Inquiry, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA
Hum Factors 45:173-85. 2003..Although further research on safety climate in health care is warranted, hospitals may need to make substantial changes to achieve a safety climate consistent with the status of high-reliability organizations... - External validation of simulation-based assessments with other performance measures of third-year anesthesiology residentsSeshadri C Mudumbai
Anesthesia Service, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
Simul Healthc 7:73-80. 2012..We hypothesized that technical and nontechnical performance in the simulated environment is related to other various criterion measures, providing evidence to support the validity of the scores from the performance-based assessment... - Improving alertness and performance in emergency department physicians and nurses: the use of planned napsRebecca Smith-Coggins
Department of Surgery Emergency Medicine, Stanford University, 701 Welch Rd, Suite C, Palo Alto, CA 94304 1713, USA
Ann Emerg Med 48:596-604, 604.e1-3. 2006..We examine whether a 40-minute nap opportunity at 3 AM can improve cognitive and psychomotor performance in physicians and nurses working 12-hour night shifts... - Clinicians' recognition of the Ohmeda Modulus II plus and Ohmeda Excel 210 SE anesthesia machine system mode and functionYasser A Sowb
Patient Simulation Center of Innovation PSCI and Anesthesiology Service, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
Simul Healthc 1:26-31. 2006..In this paper, we examined anesthesiologists' responses to the anesthesia machine (AM) in the "off" position during a simulated emergent cesarean section scenario... - Trainee fatigue: are new limits on work hours enough?Steven K Howard
Patient Safety Center of Inquiry, VA Palo Alto Health Care System and Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, Calif 94304, USA
CMAJ 170:975-6. 2004 - Use of medical simulation to explore equipment failures and human-machine interactions in anesthesia machine pipeline supply crossoverSeshadri C Mudumbai
Anesthesia Service, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
Anesth Analg 110:1292-6. 2010..We present the use of an equipment malfunction simulation scenario, oxygen (O(2))/nitrous oxide (N(2)O) pipeline crossover, to probe residents' knowledge and their use of anesthetic equipment in a rapidly escalating crisis... - Simulation study of rested versus sleep-deprived anesthesiologistsSteven K Howard
Patient Safety Center of Inquiry, VA Palo Alto Health Care System and Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94304, USA
Anesthesiology 98:1345-55; discussion 5A. 2003..The authors used a realistic simulation environment to study the effects of sleep deprivation on psychomotor and clinical performance, subjective and objective sleepiness, and mood... - The culture of safety: results of an organization-wide survey in 15 California hospitalsS J Singer
Center for Health Policy Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 6019, USA
Qual Saf Health Care 12:112-8. 2003..To understand fundamental attitudes towards patient safety culture and ways in which attitudes vary by hospital, job class, and clinical status... - Time for a new paradigm in pediatric medical education: teaching neonatal resuscitation in a simulated delivery room environmentL P Halamek
Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94304, USA
Pediatrics 106:E45. 2000..We developed a simulation-based training program in neonatal resuscitation (NeoSim) to bridge the gap between textbook and real life and to assess trainee satisfaction with the elements of this program... - Assessment of clinical performance during simulated crises using both technical and behavioral ratingsD M Gaba
Anesthesiology Service, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, California 94304, USA
Anesthesiology 89:8-18. 1998..This study evaluated ratings of performance, and the interrater variability of the ratings, made by multiple independent observers viewing videotapes of simulated crises... - Preliminary study of ergonomic behavior during simulated ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia using a head-mounted displayAnkeet D Udani
Department of Anesthesia, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA
J Ultrasound Med 31:1277-80. 2012..Head-mounted display technology may offer potential advantages during ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia... - The risks and implications of excessive daytime sleepiness in resident physiciansSteven K Howard
Patient Safety Center of Inquiry, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, and the Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
Acad Med 77:1019-25. 2002..To assess the levels of physiologic and subjective sleepiness in residents in three conditions: (1) during a normal (baseline) work schedule, (2) after an in-hospital 24-hour on-call period, and (3) following a period of extended sleep... - Use of cognitive aids in a simulated anesthetic crisisT Kyle Harrison
Patient Simulation Center of Innovation at VA Palo Alto Health Care System and the Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94304, USA
Anesth Analg 103:551-6. 2006..We were able to show a strong correlation between the use of a cognitive aid and the correct treatment of MH... - Anesthesia patient risk: a quantitative approach to organizational factors and risk management optionsM E Paté-Cornell
Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Stanford University, California 94305, USA
Risk Anal 17:511-23. 1997.... - Improvement in coronary anastomosis with cardiac surgery simulationJames I Fann
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 136:1486-91. 2008..We evaluated distributed practice using a portable task station and experience on a beating-heart model in training coronary anastomosis... - Patient safety climate in US hospitals: variation by management levelSara J Singer
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Med Care 46:1149-56. 2008..Strengthening hospital safety culture offers promise for reducing adverse events, but efforts to improve culture may not succeed if hospital managers perceive safety differently from frontline workers... - An overview of patient safety climate in the VAChristine W Hartmann
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, A VA Center of Excellence, Bedford, MA 01730, USA
Health Serv Res 43:1263-84. 2008..To assess variation in safety climate across VA hospitals nationally... - What makes a "good" anesthesiologist?David M Gaba
Anesthesiology 101:1061-3. 2004 - Differences in safety climate among hospital anesthesia departments and the effect of a realistic simulation-based training programJeffrey B Cooper
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit St, RSL 335, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Anesth Analg 106:574-84, table of contents. 2008.... - Safety culture: is the "unit" the right "unit of analysis"?David M Gaba
Crit Care Med 35:314-6. 2007 - Adaptive coordination in cardiac anaesthesia: a study of situational changes in coordination patterns using a new observation systemT Manser
Center for Organizational and Occupational Sciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Ergonomics 51:1153-78. 2008..Using a new observation system, it describes patterns employed by health care professionals in response to changing task demands in an acute patient care setting... - Recruitment of hospitals for a safety climate study: facilitators and barriersAmy K Rosen
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, Department of Veterans Affairs Center of Excellence, Bedford, MA, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 34:275-84. 2008..Factors affecting recruitment of 30 Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals into a study to evaluate perceptions of safety culture, or safety "climate," were examined... - Two examples of how to evaluate the impact of new approaches to teachingDavid M Gaba
Anesthesiology 96:1-2. 2002
Research Grants
- Preparing rural and urban hospitals to improve safety culture through simulationDavid Gaba; Fiscal Year: 2007..We will also use multiple methods, including process measures and participant evaluations, to evaluate simulation qualitatively. ..