Creating High-Reliability Solutions

Additional Resources

Articles and Notations


M. Michael Shabot, MD, FACS, FCCM


ACHE, 2022

World Patient Safety Day: Learning from Airlines by Michael Shabot, MD, FACS, FCCM.


Journal of Healthcare Management, 2019

Zeroing In on High Reliability in Healthcare by Michael Shabot, MD, FACS, FCCM.


AACN Advanced Critical Care, 2019

Optimizing Fail-Safe Use of Complex Medical Devices by Hercules P, Shabot MM, Ryan T, and Ratcliff S.


Healthcare Executive, 2018


ACHE, 2018

High-Reliability Patient Safety Podcast with Shabot MM, Easedown J, and Uejima B.


Optimal Resources for Surgical Quality and Safety, 2017

“Safety and Reliability” in Optimal Resources for Surgical Quality and Safety (Hoyt D, Ko C, Meredith W, Cherry R) by Shabot MM and Clarke JC.


The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, 2016

Using the Targeted Solutions Tool to Improve Hand Hygiene Compliance by Shabot MM, Chassin MR, France AC, Inurria J, Kendrick J, and Schmaltz SR.


BMJ Quality & Safety, 2015

New Tools for High Reliability Healthcare (Editorial for “Role of Cognition in Generating and Mitigating Clinical Errors”) by M. Michael Shabot, MD, FACS, FCCM.


Healthcare Executive, 2015


American Journal of Infection Control, 2014

Using Standardized Evidence-Based Instrument Care as part of a Comprehensive Program to Achieve Zero Surgical Site Infections by Dekay K, Morrison C, Kennedy V, France AC, Espinoza C, Butler J, Inurria J and Shabot MM.


The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, 2013

Memorial Hermann: High Reliability from Board to Bedside by Shabot MM, Monroe D, Inurria J, Garbade D, France AC.


Health & Hospital Networks, 2013


Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2012

Integrating Quality and Strategy in Health Care Organizations by Sadegh S, Barzi A, Mikhail O, and Shabot MM


Group Practice Journal, 2011

Our Journey to Zero Patient Harm by Shabot MM and Warneke M.


Modern Healthcare, 2011


Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, 2005


Critical Care Clinic, 2005


Year Book of Surgery 2004


The American Surgeon, 2002


Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2001

Reducing the Frequency of Errors in Medicine Using Information Technology, by Bates DW, Cohen M, Leape LL, Overhage JM, Shabot MM, and Sheridan T.


HIMSS Journal, 1996

Achieving Measurable CQI Results by M. Michael Shabot, MD, FACS, FCCM.


Rod Brace, PhD


Systemness Taps the Power of Inter-dependence in Healthcare, Frontiers of Health Services Management (Summer 2021)

Systemness Taps the Power of Interdependence in Healthcare, Frontiers of Health Services Management by Stokes, Charles D. FACHE and Brace, Rod (Stokes, Charles D. FACHE; Brace, Rod Systemness Taps the Power of Interdependence in Healthcare, Frontiers of Health Services Management: Summer 2021 - Volume 37 - Issue 4 - p 17-27 doi: 10.1097/HAP.0000000000000110)


American College of Healthcare Executives, 2020

Adapting to Changing Roles (sign in required to read) by Rod Brace, Ph.D. and David James, MD, JD.


Healthcare Executive, 2019

Performance Evolution by Monroe, Douglas; Speer, Linda; and Brace, Rod.


American Association of Healthcare Administrative Management, 2018

Healthcare Employee Engagement in a High Reliability Organization by Rod Brace, Ph.D.


Leadership Conversations with Josh Reich and Casey Cease, 2018


Congress of Neurological Surgeons, 2017

A Review and Survey of Neurosurgeon–Hospital Relationships: Evolution and Options by Dong H. Kim, MD; Bernard Duco, JD; Daniel Wolterman, MBA, MHA; Charles Stokes, MHA; Rod Brace, PhD; Robert A. Solomon, MD; Nicholas Barbaro, MD; Richard Westmark, MD; David MacDougall, MD; James Bean, MD; Joanna O’Leary, PhD; Nicole Moayeri, MD; Ralph G. Dacey, Jr, MD; Mitchel S. Berger, MD; and Robert Harbaugh, MD.


Lucid Books, 2009

Four Conversations by Rod Brace, Ph.D.


Mark Chassin, MD, FACP, MPP, MPH


JAMA Int Med, 2020


Annals of Internal Medicine, 2017


The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, 2015



Milbank Quarterly, 2013


Health Affairs, 2011