The Burning Platform: Improving Surgical Quality and Keeping Patients Safe -- Risk Factors and Epidemiology of Surgical Safety -- Concepts and Models of Safety, Resilience, and Reliability -- Surgery through a Human Factors and Ergonomics Lens -- The Relationship between Teamwork and Patient Safety -- Enterprise and Human Factors Risk Management in Healthcare -- The Patient Experience: An Essential Component of High-Value Care and Service -- Patients and Families as Co-Producers of Safe and Reliable Outcomes -- Tools and Strategies for Continuous Quality Improvement and Patient Safety -- New Surgical Technology Implementation and Patient Safety -- Organizational Learning and Cultural Determinants of Safety -- The Role of Architecture and Physical Environment in Hospital Safety Design -- Building Surgical Expertise through the Science of Continuous Learning and Training -- Promoting Occupational Wellness and Combating Professional Burnout in the Surgical Workforce -- Executive Leadership and Surgical Quality: A Guide for Senior Hospital Leaders -- Information Technology Infrastructure, Management and Implementation: The Rise of the Emergent Clinical Information System and the Chief Medical Information Officer -- Redesigning Hospital Alarms for Reliable and Safe Care -- Implementation Science: Translating Research into Practice for Sustained Impact -- The Leadership Role: Designing Perioperative Surgical Services for Safety and Efficiency -- Operating Room Management, Measures of OR Efficiency and Cost Effectiveness -- The Science of Delivering Safe and Reliable Anesthesia Care -- Enhanced Recovery After Surgery: ERAS -- The Next Frontier: Ambulatory and Outpatient Surgical Safety and Quality -- Human Factors and Operating Room Design Challenges -- Diagnostic Error in Surgery and Surgical Services -- Preventing Perioperative 'Never Events' -- Health Care Associated Infections in Surgical Practice -- Safer Medication Administration Through Design and Ergonomics -- Preventing Venous Thromboembolism Across the Surgical Care Continuum -- Preventing Perioperative Positioning and Equipment Injuries -- Challenges in Preventing Electrical, Thermal, and Radiation Injuries -- Improving Clinical Performance by Analyzing Surgical Skills and Operative Errors -- Perioperative Risk and Management of Surgical Patients -- Managing the Complex High-Risk Surgical Patient -- Geriatric Surgical Quality and Wellness -- Patient Transitions and Handovers across the Continuum of Surgical Care -- Failure to Rescue and Failure to Perceive Patients in Crisis -- A Quiet Revolution: Communication and Disclosing about Unexpected Outcomes and Resolving Patient Harm -- It's My Fault: Personal Accountability and the Role of the Risk Manager in Creating Patient Safety -- Capturing, Reporting and Learning from Adverse Events -- How not to Run in Incident Investigation -- Multi-Institutional Learning and Collaboration to Improve Quality and Safety -- Lessons Learned from Anesthesia Registries about Surgical Safety and Reliability -- Use of Surgical Registry Data to Improve Outcomes -- How regulators Assess Safety and Quality in Surgical Services -- The Perioperative Surgical Home: The New Frontier -- Surgical Medical Education Program Accreditation and the Clinical Learning Environment: Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality -- Affordable Care Act, Public Legislation and Professional Self-Regulation: Implications for Public Policy -- Maintaining Surgical Safety and Quality in Rural and Remote Settings -- Global Surgery: Progress and Challenges in Surgical Quality and Patient Care -- Surgical Safety in Developing Countries: Middle East, North Africa and Gulf Countries -- Future Directions of Surgical Safety.