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CURRICULUM VITAE
Robert Lewis Wears, MD, MS, PhD, FACEP
Personal
Professional Address: Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Florida Health Science Center Jacksonville
655 West Eighth Street
Jacksonville, FL 32209
+1-(904)-244-4405
FAX +1-(904)-244-4508
Email: [email protected]
Home Address: 2920 Magnolia Road South
Orange Park, FL 32065-6911
(904)-269-6128
Born: Washington, DC 1947
Education and Training
Undergraduate:
The Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD 21218
BA in Liberal Arts 1969
Dean's List
Graduate:
The Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
MD 1973
University of North Florida
College of Computer and Information Science
MS 1993
Ecole Nationale Superior des Mines de Paris
Centre de Recherché sur les Risques et les Crises
PhD (avec les honneurs) 2011
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Postgraduate:
University of Texas Teaching Hospitals
San Antonio, TX
Internal medicine 1973
U. S. Public Health Service Hospital
New Orleans, LA
Rotating 1974
University Hospital of Jacksonville
Jacksonville, FL
Emergency Medicine 1976-1978
Chief Resident 1978
Further Training:
Academic Sabbatical in Patient Safety Research 2004-2005
Imperial College London, Prof Charles Vincent principal mentor
London, UK
Military:
LT CDR, US Public Health Service
USPHS Hospital
Norfolk, VA 1974-1976
Certification:
American Board of Emergency Medicine 1980-1990
Re-certified 1990-2000
Re-re-certified 2000-2010
Re-re-re-certified 2010-2020
Fellow of the American College of Emergency
Physicians 1982-2005
Life Fellow of the American College of Emergency
Physicians 2005-present
Licensure:
Virginia 26229 1975-1984
Florida 30017 1977-present
FLEX 1975
DEA registration AW7474404
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Career Activities
Current Position: Professor 1995-present
Department of Emergency Medicine
College of Medicine
University of Florida Health Science Center
Jacksonville, FL
Core faculty 2012-present
Fellowship in Patient Safety & Quality
UF Health Science Center – Jacksonville
Jacksonville, FL
Visiting Professor 2004-present
Clinical Safety Research Unit
College of Medicine
Imperial College London
London, UK
Visiting Professorial Fellow 2014-present
Institute for Health Innovation
Macquarie University
Sydney, AU
Visiting Scientist 2014
Center for Quality, Region of Southern Denmark
Middelfart, DK
Adjunct Professor of Patient Safety 2014-2019
University of Southern Denmark
Odense, DK
Previous Positions:
Instructor 1978-1979
Department of Emergency Medicine
University Hospital of Jacksonville
Jacksonville, FL
Founding partner, Emergency Medical Specialists
of Jacksonville 1979-1984
Active Staff, Department of Emergency Medicine 1979-1984
St. Vincent's Medical Center
1800 Barrs Street
Jacksonville, FL 32204
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Active Staff, Department of Emergency Medicine
St. Augustine General Hospital
U. S. 1 South
St. Augustine, FL 32084 1979-1986
Active Staff, Department of Emergency Medicine
St. Luke's Hospital
Belfort Road
Jacksonville, FL 1985-1986
Assistant Professor 1984-1990
Associate Professor 1990-1995
Tenure granted 1993
Director, Medical Information Science Section 1986-2000
Co-director, Medical Informatics 1995-1998
Division of Emergency Medicine
Department of Surgery
College of Medicine
University of Florida Health Science Center
Jacksonville, FL
Professional Activities
Senior Associate Editor, Annals of Emergency Medicine 2014-present
Associate Editor, Annals of Emergency Medicine 1995-2014
Editor, Special Section on Studies of Technical Work
Annals of Emergency Medicine 2007
Editorial Board, Annals of Emergency Medicine 1989-present
Editorial Board, Journal of Patient Safety 2004-present
Editorial Board, Human Factors and Ergonomics 2004-present
Editorial Board,
International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine 2004-present
Editorial Board,
International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2007-2009
Guest Editor, Quality and Safety in Health Care
Supplement on Organizational Safety 2004
Abstracts Editor, Journal Emergency Medicine 1987-1989
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Reviewer, Annals of Emergency Medicine 1984-present
Academic Emergency Medicine 1993-present
BMJ 2007-present
JAMA 1994-present
BMJ Quality and Safety 1999-present
Cognition, Technology & Work 2003-present
Human Factors & Ergonomics 2004-present
Journal of Patient Safety 2004-present
American Journal of Emergency Medicine 1988-present
Journal of Emergency Medicine 1988-present
Medical Decision Making 1992-2003
Critical Care 2006
Hospital Medicine 2006
Applied Ergonomics 2006-present
Reliability Engineering & Safety Science 2006-present
Journal of Biomedical Informatics 2007-present
Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision-Making
2009-present
Annals of Surgery 2009-present
Journal of Healthcare Engineering 2009-present
Teaching & Learning in Medicine 2009-present
International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
2009-present
Pediatrics 2011
IEEE Transactions on Health Systems Engineering 2012-present
BioMed Central Health Services Research 2011-present
Ergonomics 2012-present
European Journal of Emergency Medicine 2012-present
Academic Medicine 2013-present
Contemporary Clinical Trials 2013-present
Safety Science 2012-present
Member, Emergency Medicine Patient Safety Foundation
Board of Directors 2007-present
Member, National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare
Board of Directors 2010-present
Founding partner, Wears & Kamens:
Consulting, systems analysis, software development 1977-1986
Bloodgas Consultant© 1983
BackBone© 1985
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Committee Service:
International:
Member, Executive Committee, Resilience Engineering Association
Paris, France 2013-
Member, Pediatric Patient Safety Priorities Task Force
Ottawa, Canada 2012
Member, AAMI / NRC Event Investigation Panel
San Diego, CA 2012
Resilience in Health Care Planning Committee
University of Southern Denmark
Middelfart, Denmark 2012-
Member, Resilience Engineering Workshop Planning Group 2012
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC
Member, Programme Committee
Engineering Interactive Computer Systems for Medicine & Healthcare
ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computer Systems
Pisa, Italy 2011
Member, Planning Committee
Healthcare Systems, Ergonomics, and Patient Safety 2011
Oviedo, Spain
Member, Planning Committee
Healthcare Systems, Ergonomics, and Patient Safety 2007
Strasbourg, France
Member, Scientific Review Committee
Healthcare Systems, Ergonomics, and Patient Safety 2005
Florence, Italy
Member, Prioritisation Expert Panel
National Health Service / National Patient Safety Administration
London, UK 2004 - 2005
Field Reviewer, Accident and Emergency Medicine
The Cochrane Collaboration
London, UK 1994-1995
National:
Member, Technical Expert Panel on Improving ED Discharge (AHRQ Task
Order HHSA290201000027I) 2013
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Chair, AHRQ Healthcare Safety and Quality Research
Study Section 2011-present
Member, Program Committee, National Academy of Sciences Seminar Series
(Resilience Engineering) 2012-2013
Member, ACEP/SAEM Transitions in Care Task Force 2012
Member, ACEP/SAEM Crowding Task Force 2012
Member, SAEM Consensus Conference Planning Group 2011
ACEP representative, National Quality Forum
Patient Safety Committee 2009-2010
ACEP Representative, American Health Information Community Workgroup on
Electronic Health Records, Office of National Coordinator for Health
Information Technology 2007-2008
Member, Society for Emergency Medicine Crowding Task Force 2007-present
Member, AHRQ Health Care Quality and Effectiveness
Research Study Section, 2006-2010
Member, AHRQ / DOD Panel on Teamwork Measures 2005-2006
Member, ACGME Expert Panel on Quality Measures 2004-2006
Member, CMS Technical Expert Panel on
Quality in Emergency Care 2003-2005
Co-chair, National Patient Safety Foundation Research Program 2002-2006
Chair 2006-2008
Chair, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Patient Safety Task Force 1999-2004
Member, American College of Emergency Physicians 2001-2006
Clinical Policies Committee
Member, American College of Emergency Physicians
Patient Safety Task Force 1999-2004
Member, Macy Foundation Task Force on
Emergency Medicine Research 1994
Member, Multi-institutional Trials Committee
Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma 1992-1996
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Member, Technology Committee
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 1993-1994
Member, National Emergency Medicine Database Task Force
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 1993-1994
Member, Software Evaluation Committee
Section on Computers
American College of Emergency Physicians 1993-1994
Member, Physicians Advisory Panel on Medical Information Systems
HBO & Company
Atlanta, GA 1989-1995
State:
Scientific Advisor, Florida Patient Safety Corporation 2007-2009
Member, Florida Patient Safety Corporation Research Committee 2003-present
Member, Florida Hospital Association Patient Safety Task Force 2000-2002
Member, National Patient Safety Foundation Florida Forum 1999
Member, Government Affairs Committee
Florida College of Emergency Physicians 1993-1995
Member, EMS/Trauma Committee
Florida College of Emergency Physicians 1992-1995
Member Technical Advisory Panel on Trauma Scoring Methodology
Department of Health & Human Resources/Emergency Medical Systems
State of Florida 1989
Member, Professional Relations Committee
Florida College of Emergency Physicians 1983-1984
President, Northeast Florida Emergency Medicine Society
Jacksonville, FL 1982
University:
Member, Epic implementation Champions Committee 2010-present
Member, Information Technology Oversight Committee 2005-present
Member, Patient Safety Committee 2004-present
Chair, Institutional Review Board 3
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University of Florida Health Science Center Jacksonville 1994-1999
Chair, IRB Internal Audit Subcommittee
University of Florida Health Science Center Jacksonville 1994
Vice-Chair, Institutional Review Board
University of Florida Health Science Center Jacksonville 1988-1994
Member, Institutional Review Board
University of Florida Health Science Center Jacksonville 1987-1999
Member, Systems Oversight Committee
University of Florida Health Science Center Jacksonville 1997-1999
Member, Information Security Committee
University of Florida Health Science Center Jacksonville 1997-1998
Member, Long Range Steering Committee
University of Florida Health Science Center Jacksonville 1990-1995
Member, Five Year Planning Subcommittee
University of Florida Health Science Center Jacksonville 1990-1993
Member, Instruction and Research Committee
University of Florida / Northeast Regional Data Center 1991-1996
Member, Clinical Toxicology Advisory Committee
University of Florida Health Science Center Jacksonville 1988-2001
Member, Computer-Based Patient Record Committee
University of Florida Health Science Center Jacksonville 1989-1994
Member, Academic Advisory Committee
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Florida Health Science Center Jacksonville 1990-present
Chair, Faculty Information System Committee
University of Florida Health Science Center Jacksonville 1992-1996
Graduate Student Supervision:
PhD evaluation jury
Kristin Laugaland
University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
Defence January 2015
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PhD candidate Priscila Wachs
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brasil
Anticipated graduation 2015
Project supervisor, Master’s Candidate Ellen Deutsch, MD
Northwestern University
Anticipated graduation 2015
External referee, PhD Candidate Qunyh Doan
School of Public Health
University of British Columbia
Anticipated defence 2014
PhD Candidate, Garth Stephen Hunte, MD
Department of Epidemiology
University of British Columbia
Degree granted, May 2011
PhD Candidate, Polyneikitis Chozos
Department of Computing Sciences
University of Glasgow
Degree granted, December 2008
PhD Candidate, Sara Albolino
Department of Sociology
University of Milan
Degree granted, June 2006
EdD Candidate, Teri Chenot, BSN
Department of Education
University of North Florida
Degree granted, June 2008
K Award Mentoring:
Completed:
Rollin (Terry) Fairbanks, MD, MS
Medstar Health / Georgetown University
2011
Rose Fernandez, MD
University of Washington
2012
Mary Patterson, MD
University of Akron
2010
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Michael Ward, MD, PhD candidate
University of Cincinnati
2013
Awarded, currently in progress:
Edward Melnick, MD, MPH
Yale University
Anticipated completion 2015
Richard Holden, PhD
Vanderbilt University
Anticipated completion 2016
Special Interests: Resilience Engineering
Human Factors and Ergonomics
Patient Safety in Health Care
Safety-Critical Computing
Self-organizing complexity
Naturalistic Decision-Making
Biostatistics and Information Theory
Computer and Immersive Simulation
Member of:
American College of Emergency Physicians
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
National Patient Safety Foundation
l’Association de l’Ingénierie de la Résilience
American Society of Professionals in Patient Safety
Resilience in Healthcare Network
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
System Dynamics Society
American Medical Informatics Association
Association for Computing Machinery
l’Association des Anciens Élèves de l’École des Mines de Paris
Duval County Medical Society
Florida Medical Association
The Society of Pithotomists
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Honors or Awards:
University of Florida Research Foundation Professor 2013-2015
Scholar - Researcher of the Year
University of Florida Health Center Jacksonville 2010
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Scholarly Sabbatical Award 2004
Researcher of the Year
University of Florida Health Center Jacksonville 2001
Upsilon Pi Epsilon (National Computer Science Honor Society) 1992
Best Paper, Florida College of Emergency Physicians Symposium,
Palm Beach, FL 1993
Invited Lectures and Presentations:
International:
Working on Safety 2014
Keynote: Resilience Engineering in Health and Occupational Safety
Glagow, UK 2 October 2014
Organisational Design and Management 2014
Control Modes in Care Delivery Organisations
Copenhagen, Denmark, 17 - 20 August 2014
Symposium on the Legacy of Jens Rasmussen
Rasmussen Number Greater Than One
Risø, Denmark, 21 August 2014
3rd International Symposium on Resilient Healthcare
Designing Procedures to Support Resilience
Hindsgavl, Denmark, 12-16 August 2014
International Symposium on Risk-Taking in Life-Critical Systems
Risk Taking in the Emergency Department
Florida Institute of Technology / Université de Valençiennes
2nd International Symposium on Resilient Healthcare
Patients as sources of resilience
Hindsgavl, Denmark,24 - 28 August 2013
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2nd International Symposium on Resilient Healthcare
Individual - collective tradeoffs in healthcare and their implications for
resilience.
Hindsgavl, Denmark,24 - 28 August 2013
2nd International Symposium on Resilient Healthcare
Moving from the Modernist Mythology
Hindsgavl, Denmark,24 - 28 August 2013
5th International Symposium on Resilience Engineering
Levels of Resilience: Moving from Resilience to Resilience Engineering
Soesterberg, Netherlands, 25 – 28 June 2013
1st International Symposium on Resilient Healthcare
Separating Resilience from Success
Hindsgavl, Denmark, 2 -3 June 2012
European Society of Anesthesiology
Debate: Standardisation, Pro or Con?
Paris, France, 6 - 9 June 2012
2nd Nordic Conference on Safety and Quality
Keynote: Standardisation: Is It a Strategy for Improvement?
Copenhagen, Denmark, 7 March 2012
International Ergonomics Association
Can Health IT Ever Be Safe?
Recife, Brazil, 26 February 2012
International Ergonomics Association
Re-envisioning Healthcare as a Safety-Critical Industry
Recife, Brazil, 26 February 2012
4th International Conference on Resilience Engineering
The Practitioner’s Dilemma: Exploring Defensive, Autonomous, and
Cooperative Strategies for Maintaining Margin of Maneuver
Sophia Antipolis, France, 8 – 10 June 2011
4th International Conference on Resilience Engineering
Fundamental on Situational Surprise: A Case Study with Implications for
Resilience
Sophia Antipolis, France, 8 – 10 June 2011
Fifth International Symposium on Functional Resonance Analysis Methods
Using FRAM to Understand Success as well as Failure
Sophia Antipolis, France, 12 – 13 June 2011
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Keynote Address
How Do We Explain the Persistence of Barely Usable Medical Devices?
CHI+MED, St Albans, UK, January 2010
Lectio Magistrale
What Safety Science Can Learn from European Work Ecology Studies
Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italia, 22 September 2009
European Society for Health Psychology
Building Shared Cognition: Shift Changes in Emergency Departments
Pisa, Italia 25 September 2009
3rd International Conference on Resilience Engineering
System dynamic representations of resilience
Juan-les-Pins, France 28 – 30 October 2008
3rd International Conference on Resilience Engineering
When worlds collide: two medication systems in one emergency department
Juan-les-Pins, France 28 – 30 October 2008
PhD Student Seminar
Models of Decision-making in Healthcare
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Decision-making
Università degli studi di Milano
Milan, Italy 27 October 2008
Doctoral Student Seminar
Systems Dynamics Models of Resilience
Ècole des Mines de Paris
Sophia Antipolis, FR June 2008
Human Factors & Ergonomics in Patient Safety II
Safeware: Safety-critical computing and health information technology
Strasbourg, FR June 2008
Human Factors & Ergonomics in Patient Safety II
Preoccupation with Failure: Complex Case Studies
Strasbourg, FR June 2008
Organizational Design and Management VII
Notes from Underground: Formal vs. Informal Knowledge of Organizational
Hazards
São Paulo, Brazil 20 March 2008
7th Halifax Symposium on Patient Safety
Rapporteur
Ottawa, ON 11 – 13 October 2007
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IEEE Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
Ironies of Improvement
Montreal, QU 9 – 10 October, 2007
2nd International Conference on Resilience Engineering
Free fall: a case study in resilience, its degradation and recovery in a US
emergency department
Juan-les-Pins, France 8 – 10 November 2006
2nd International Conference on Resilience Engineering
Extemporaneous adaptation to evolving complexity
Juan-les-Pins, France 9 – 10 November 2006
6th Halifax Symposium on Patient Safety
Rapporteur: What is the Proper Role of Regulation in Patient Safety?
Vancouver, BC 19 – 21 October 2006
Patient Safety: Looking Back, Looking Forward
University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB 22 August 2006
Invited Discussant: Teamwork Skills in Healthcare – Their Assessment and
Relevance to Patient Safety and Safety Culture.
International Congress on Applied Psychology, Athens, Greece 2006
Invited Discussant: Cognitive and Social Skills in Healthcare – Enhancing
Patient Safety
International Congress on Applied Psychology, Athens, Greece 2006
Keynote Address: Risk and Resilience in Emergency Care
International Congress on Emergency Medicine, Halifax, NS 2006
Safety and ED Culture
Mediterranean Emergency Medicine Symposium, Nice, FR 2005
Organizational Design and Management VI
Consequences of Technical Change in Cognitive Artefacts for Managing Complex
Work
Kailea, HW 23 June 2005
Studying Hard to See Things: Shift Changes and Safety
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK 2005
On the Research Agenda for Design in Healthcare
Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK 2005
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Status Boards as Cognitive Artifacts Supporting Safety
European Union Group for Analysis, Design & Validation of Interactive Safety-
Critical & Error-tolerant Systems
University of Liége, Liége, Belgium, 6 January 2005
Emergent Complexity and Safety
European Union Group for Analysis, Design & Validation of Interactive Safety-
Critical & Error-tolerant Systems
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK 22 March 2005
Safety Culture
Royal College of Physicians, London, UK 2004
Research on Patient Safety: Why is it Different from Traditional Biomedical
Research?
Imperial College / St Mary’s Hospital, London, UK 2003
Taylorism Redux: Authoritarian High Modernism in Healthcare
Halifax Forum, Halifax, NS 2003
Patient Safety: Where are we Going?
3rd Dalhousie Patient Safety Symposium, Halifax, NS 2003
Evaluating Medical Evidence
Latin American Emergency Medicine Forum, Santiago, Chile 2003
Steroids and Spinal Cord Injury
Latin American Emergency Medicine Forum, Santiago, Chile 2003
Recurring Themes in Patient Safety
2nd Dalhousie Medical Errors Symposium, Halifax, NS 2002
Human Failure in Healthcare
Tyco – Ethicon Keynote Speaker
Assoc of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, Dublin, IR 2002
Beyond Error
Dalhousie Medical Errors Symposium, Halifax, NS 2001
Weighing the Evidence
Italian-American Clinical Policy Symposium, Couermayer, IT 2000
National:
Northwestern University Master’s Degree Program in Patient Safety
Basics of Human Factors and Ergonomics
Chicago, IL 15 July 2014
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University of Maryland Emergency Medicine Research Day
Ignorance: Just What You Need for a Career in Research
11 June 2014
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
After Words: Managing the Aftermath of Adverse Events
Dallas, TX 16 May 2014
Human Factors & Ergonomics in Healthcare
Handoffs: Wish We Didn’t Know Now What We Didn’t Know Then
Chicago, IL 16 – 19 March 2014
Human Factors & Ergonomics in Healthcare
The Substrate for Resilience
Chicago, IL 16 – 19 March 2014
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
After Words – Managing the Aftermath of Adverse Events
Dallas, TX 16 May 2014
Healthcare Design Conference
Resilience and Designing for Safety
Orlando, FL 19 November 2013
Yale University / Yale - New Haven Hospital
The Error of Chasing Errors: And Other Reasons Why Safety is Hard
Transforming Healthcare Grand Rounds
New Haven, CT 12 November 2013
National Academy of Sciences
Safety-I vs Safety-II
Keck Center, Washington DC 14 June 2013
National Patient Safety Foundation Congress
A Social History of Patient Safety
New Orleans, LA 9 May 2013
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
We All Make Mistakes – But What Do You Do Afterwards?
Atlanta, GA 14-19 May 2013
Human Centered Design Institute, Florida Institute of Technology
Life-Critical Systems: Healthcare
Melbourne, FL March 27 2013
Human Factors in Healthcare
Moving from Safety-I to Safety-II: The Role of Human Factors Engineering
Baltimore, MD 13 March 2013
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Medical Innovation Institute
Resilience as a Strategy for Safety and Quality
Columbia, MD 9 October 2012
ACEP / AHRQ Infection Prevention in the ED
The Role of Ergonomics and Design
Denver, CO 6 October 2012
Medstar Seminar on Complex Adaptive Systems
Resilience and Complexity
Washington, DC 6 September 2012
American Sociological Association
Envisioning Utopias in Healthcare
Denver, CO 17 August 2012
Academy of Management
Overload and the ED: Implications for Safety & Quality
Boston, MA 5 – 8 August, 2012
University of Wisconsin
Short Course in Human Factors and Ergonomics
Madison, WI 18 July 2012
Northwestern University Master’s Degree Program in Patient Safety
Basics of Human Factors and Ergonomics
Chicago, IL 17 July 2012
Human Factors in Healthcare
I’m from the EMR and I’m here to help you?
Baltimore, MD 12 March 2012
Human Factors in Healthcare
Joint Cognition in the ER: Implications for Safety & Quality
Baltimore, MD 13 March 2012
The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Safety & Quality Grand Rounds
The Evolution of Patient Safety
Baltimore, MD 14 March 2012
University of Wisconsin
Short Course in Human Factors and Ergonomics
Madison, WI 17 August 2011
System Dynamics Society
Dynamics of ED / Hospital Overcrowding
Washington, DC 24 – 27 July 2011
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Northwestern University Master’s Degree Program in Patient Safety
Basics of Human Factors and Ergonomics
Chicago, IL 12-13 July 2011
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Consensus Conference
ED – Hospital Crowding
Boston, MA June 2011
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Panel: Barriers in Moving Research to Practice
Boston, MA June 2011
Emergency Medicine Patient Safety Foundation
ED Safety and National Safety Goals
Las Vegas, NV 1 – 3 May 2011
Clemson University
Shift Change Communications
Clemson, SC April 18, 2011
University of Wisconsin
Grand Rounds: Creating Safety in Crowded EDs
Madison, WI February 2011
University of Wisconsin
Improving Flow – Fads and Fallacies
Madison, WI February 2011
University of Wisconsin College of Engineering
Good night and good luck: shift change handoffs in the emergency department
Madison, WI February 2011
International Society for Simulation in Healthcare
Human factors engineering and simulation
New Orleans, LA January 2011
System Dynamics Society Winter Conference
Feedbacks and hospital overcrowding
Austin, TX 2011
CTSI Seminar Series
Translating Research Across Different Dimensions
Clinical & Translational Research Institute
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 10 November 2010
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Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Simulation-based safety initiatives: ‘non-traditional’ simulation
Phoenix, AZ 5 June 2010
Mulroy Memorial Lecture
Medicalizing Patient Safety
Northshore – University Health System
Evanston, IL 10 June 2010
Cincinnati Childrens’ Hospital / U of Cincinnati
Human Factors Engineering and Patient Safety
Cincinnati, OH March 2010
Mt Sinai School of Medicine
ED – Hospital Crowding: Insights from System Dynamics
New York, NY August 2009
University of Wisconsin
Short Course in Human Factors and Ergonomics
Madison, WI 26 – 30 July 2010
Northwestern University Master’s Degree Program in Patient Safety
Basics of Human Factors and Ergonomics
Chicago, IL 13 July 2010
Northwestern University Master’s Degree Program in Patient Safety
Advanced Human Factors and Ergonomics
Chicago, IL 13 July 2010
International Society for Simulation in Healthcare
Joining Simulation and Patient Safety
Phoenix, AZ 25 January 2010
ACEP Scientific Assembly
Using Information Technology to Improve the Safety of Acute Care
Boston, MA 5-8 October 2009
ACEP Scientific Assembly
A Systems Approach to Optimizing the Safety and Reliability of Handoffs
Boston, MA 5-8 October 2009
University of Wisconsin
Short Course in Human Factors and Ergonomics
Madison, WI 15 – 16 July 2009
Northwestern University Master’s Degree Program in Patient Safety
Basics of Human Factors and Ergonomics
Chicago, IL 13 July 2009
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Northwestern University Master’s Degree Program in Patient Safety
Advanced Human Factors and Ergonomics
Chicago, IL 13 July 2009
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Lost in Translation: Knowledge Translation One Year Later
Washington, DC May 2008
1st AHRQ Conference on Diagnostic Error
What makes diagnosis hard?
Phoenix, AZ 30 May 2008
Northwestern University Master’s Degree Program in Patient Safety
Introduction to Human Factors and Ergonomics
Chicago, IL 15 July 2008
University of Wisconsin
Short Course in Human Factors and Ergonomics
Madison, WI 15 – 16 August 2008
Northwestern University Master’s Degree Program in Patient Safety
Basics of Human Factors and Ergonomics
Chicago, IL July 2008
Northwestern University Master’s Degree Program in Patient Safety
Advanced Human Factors and Ergonomics
Chicago, IL July 2008
American Association for Emergency Medicine
Human Factors Engineering in the Emergency Department
Amelia Island, FL February 2008
University of Pennsylvania
Grand Rounds: Patient Safety in Emergency Medicine
Philadelphia, PA March 2008
University of Indiana
Grand Rounds: Patient Safety in Emergency Medicine
Indianapolis, IN December 2007
University of Wisconsin
Grand Rounds: Patient Safety in Emergency Medicine
Madison, WI April 2008
University of Wisconsin
PhD Student Seminar: Scientific Models for Studying Safety
Madison, WI April 2008
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Indiana ACEP
Patient Safety in Emergency Medicine
April 2008
National Patient Safety Foundation Congress
Gilding the Lily: Computerizing the ED Status Board
Nashville, TN, October 2007
ACEP Research Forum
Safety Implications of Computerizing the ED Status Board
Seattle, WA 9 October 2007
Northwestern University Dept of Emergency Medicine
Patient Safety Day
Chicago, IL 19 September 2007
Northwestern University Master’s Degree Program in Patient Safety
Basics of Human Factors and Ergonomics
Chicago, IL 17 July 2007
Northwestern University Master’s Degree Program in Patient Safety
Advanced Human Factors and Ergonomics
Chicago, IL 17 July 2007
University of Wisconsin
Short Course in Human Factors and Ergonomics
Madison, WI 13 – 17 August 2007
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Replacing Hindsight with Insight: Overcoming Hindsight Bias in Adverse Event
Studies
Chicago, IL May 2007
ACEP Scientific Assembly
Quality contrasted with Safety
New Orleans, LA 17 October 2006
University of Rochester
Grand Rounds: Patient Safety and Shift Change
Rochester, NY 28 September 2006
University of Wisconsin
Short Course in Human Factors and Ergonomics
Madison, WI 30 – 31 August 2006
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Vanderbilt University
Grand Rounds: How to Study Hard-To-See Things
Nashville, TN 19 June 2006
Vanderbilt University
Patient Safety: Looking Backward, Looking Forward
Nashville, TN 18 June 2006
2nd Annual Conference on Patient Safety and Health Information Technology
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Plausibly Correct, but Wrong: A Failure Phenotype in Health IT
Washington, DC 5 June 2006
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Designing and Completing an Academic Sabbatical
May 2006
Association of Clinical Scientists
Ship of Fools: All Rowing Hard in Different Directions
Amelia Island, Florida 30 May 2006
University of Cincinnati
Grand Rounds: Information Technology – Boon or Bane for Safety?
Cincinnati, OH April 2006
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Grand Rounds: Shift Change Turnovers – Best or Worst of Times?
Baltimore, MD 24 February 2006
Simulation in Emergency Medicine
International Meeting for Medical Simulation
San Diego, CA, January 2006
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Why is So Much Computerized Health Information Technology So Bad?
Baltimore, MD 14 November 2005
University of Maryland
Grand Rounds: Shift Change Turnovers
Baltimore, MD 16 November 2005
Decision Sciences Institute
Analyzing human performance in knowledge-intensive services: a study in
emergency care
San Francisco, CA 19 – 23 November 2005
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EmCare, Inc
Information Technology for Patient Safety
Dallas, TX 11 November 2005
Shift Changes in the Emergency Department: How to Study Hard to See Things
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
New York, NY May 2005
Safety Science and Patient Safety
Federation of Cognitive, Psychological and Behavioral Sciences
Washington, DC 2004
Framework for Studying Shift Changes and Other Transitions in Care
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
New Orleans, LA 2004
Organizational Safety
Short Course on Human Factors and Ergonomics
University of Wisconsin College of Engineering 2004
Understanding Technical Work in Healthcare
Short Course on Human Factors and Ergonomics
University of Wisconsin College of Engineering 2004
Shift Change Transitions: Best of Times, Worst of Times
National Patient Safety Foundation
Boston, MA 2004
Technology and Patient Safety: Solutions or Experiments?
Queens Medical Center, Honolulu, HI 2004
Teamwork and Group work in Healthcare
Queens Medical Center, Honolulu, HI 2004
University of Minnesota / HealthPartners
Grand Rounds: Human Failure and Patient Safety
Minneapolis, MN 2004
Mayo Clinic School of Medicine
Grand Rounds: Human Failure and Patient Safety
Rochester, MN 2004
Mayo Clinic School of Medicine
Grand Rounds: The Nature of Medical Expertise
Rochester, MN 2004
Advanced Research Methods: Multivariable Analysis
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Boston, MA 2003
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Errors in Emergency Departments
National Patient Safety Foundation, Washington, DC 2003
Mt Sinai School of Medicine
Grand Rounds: Patient Safety – What’s the Problem?
New York, NY 2003
Mt Sinai School of Medicine
Grand Rounds: Weighing Evidence – Hyperbaric Oxygen in CO intoxication
New York, NY 2003
Qualitative Research Methods
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Atlanta, GA 2002
Patient Safety and Health Care Organizations
Academy of Management, Washington, DC 2001
University of Michigan
Grand Rounds: Patient Safety – What’s the Problem?
Ann Arbor, MI 2001
Panelist, Cultural Issues in Information Systems Implementation
American Medical Informatics Association 2000.
On Acquiring Expertise
American Association of Medical Colleges 2000
Chair, Consensus Conference on Human Error in Emergency Medicine
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 2000
Advanced Research Methods: Cluster Randomized Studies
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 2000
Evaluating Patient Satisfaction Surveys
Benchmarking Alliance 1999
Teamwork Training in Emergency Medicine: Applying Advances from Aviation
Cockpit Resource Management
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 1998
Bridging Two Cultures -- Physicians and IT Professionals
Executive Advisory Panel, Data General Corporation
San Francisco, CA 1997
Advanced Research Methods: Logistic Regression
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Washington, DC 1997
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Advanced Research Methods: Cost-effectiveness Analysis
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Washington, DC 1997
Medical Informatics and the Academic Emergency Physician
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Denver, CO 1996
Choosing Computer Statistical Packages
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Denver, CO 1996
Error in Medicine -- the Compelling Application?
Physician-Computer Connection, Couer d'Alene, ID 1995
Multiple Comparisons Procedures
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, San Antonio, TX 1995
Recent Advances in Biostatistics
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Washington DC 1994
Computer Support for Clinical Decision-Making
Symposium: Technological Advances in Emergency Medicine,
Orlando, FL 1994
Introduction to the Interpretation and Techniques of Meta-analysis.
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, San Francisco 1993
Research in Cost-effectiveness
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, San Francisco 1993
Computer Applications in Emergency Medicine: Basic.
American College of Emergency Physicians Clinical Forum, Kansas City 1993
Computer Applications in Emergency Medicine: Advanced.
American College of Emergency Physicians Clinical Forum, Kansas City 1993
How Statistics Lie: Problems in Clinical Literature and Clinical Practice.
American College of Emergency Physicians Clinical Forum, Kansas City 1993
Advanced Statistical Methods in Emergency Medical Research: Linear and
Logistic Regression.
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Washington, DC 1991
Defining Physician Information Needs in Emergency Medicine
HBO/Healthquest Physician Education Conference, Atlanta, GA 1992
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Regional:
Medical Education Keynote
Teaching About Sofety
UF Health Science Center Jacksonville
Jacksonville, FL 13 April 2014
Symposium on Patient Safety: Current Topics
Measurement and Communication
UF Health Science Center Jacksonville
Jacksonville, FL 27 March 2014
Southeastern Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Total Internal Reflection, Magpies, and the Problem of Orthodoxy
Keynote Address
Jacksonville, FL 6 March 2012
UF Health Science Center – Jacksonville
Studying Safety in Healthcare: Time for New Models of Science
Research Day Keynote
Jacksonville, FL 11 May 2011
‘Near-miss’ Reporting Systems: Lessons from the ASRS
Florida Society for Healthcare Risk Management
Orlando, FL 3 August 2007
Safety Ethics: Contrasting Case Studies
University of Miami Bioethics Institute 2007
Ethical and Regulatory Issues in Research on Safety in Healthcare
University of Miami Bioethics Institute 2006
Analysis of Florida’s ‘Code 15’ Adverse Event Reporting System
Florida Hospital Association 2006
Patient Safety in the Emergency Department
Florida College of Emergency Physicians, Marco Island, FL 2005
Leadership and Patient Safety
Florida College of Emergency Physicians, Ponte Vedra, FL 2003
Teamwork in the Emergency Department
Florida College of Emergency Physicians, Orlando, FL 2002
Keynote Address: As Good As It Gets?
Southeastern SAEM Meeting, Jacksonville, FL 1999
Getting IRB Approval for Research
Southeastern SAEM Meeting, Atlanta GA 1998
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Ethical and Regulatory Issues in Outcomes and Health Services Research
University of Miami Bioethics Institute 1999
An analysis of emergency physicians' cumulative career risk of human
immunodeficiency virus infection.
Science & Engineering Lecture Series, Jacksonville University,
Jacksonville, FL 1992
Emergency Medicine CPC Competition
Southern Medical Society, Atlanta, GA 1985
Fluid Resuscitation in Shock Syndromes
Florida College of Emergency Physicians, Orlando, FL 1979
Publications
(h index = 42)
Peer-reviewed Publications:
Research Papers:
Kamens DR, Wears RL, Trimble C. Circumventing the Henderson-Hasselbalch
equation: rapid estimation of metabolic state from blood gas reports, JACEP
1979; 8(11):462-6.
Yancey WB, Wears RL, Kamajian G, Derovanesian J. Unrecognized tracheal intubation:
a complication of the esophageal obturator airway. Ann Emerg Med 1980;
9(1):18-20.
Wears RL, Kamens DR. A simple method for evaluating the safety of high yield criteria.
Ann Emerg Med 1986; 15(4):439-44.
Reinecke T, Seger D, Wears RL. Rapid assessment of serum theophylline levels. Ann
Emerg Med 1986; 15(2):147-51.
Wears RL, Luten RC, Lyons RG. Which laboratory tests should be performed on
children with apparent febrile convulsions? An analysis and review of the
literature. Ped Emerg Care 1986; 2(3):191-6.
Roberge RJ, Wears RL, Kelly M, Evans TC, Kenny MA, Daffner RD, Kremen R,
Murray K, Cottingtion EC. Selective application of cervical spine radiography in
alert victims of blunt trauma: a prospective study. J Trauma 1988; 28(6):784-8.
Roberge RJ, Wears RL, Sanz C, Nicholson TR, Brennan DF. Serum amylase levels in
ectopic pregnancy. Am J Emerg Med 1988; 4(4):327-9.
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Crump JM, Duncan DA, Wears R. Analysis of multiple organ system failure in trauma
and nontrauma patients. Am Surg 1988; 54(12):702-8.
Wears RL, Li S, Hernandez JD, Luten RC, Vukich DJ. How many myocardial
infarctions should we rule out? Ann Emerg Med 1989; 18(9):953-63.
Fesmire FM, Percy RF, Wears RL. Risk stratification according to the initial ECG in
patients with suspected acute myocardial infarction. Arch Intern Med 1989;
149(6):1294-7.
Fesmire FM, Wears RL. The utility of the presence or absence of chest pain in patients
with suspected acute myocardial infarction. Am J Emerg Med 1989; 7(4):372-7.
Fesmire FM, Percy RF, Wears RL. The initial ECG in Q-wave and non-Q-wave
myocardial infarction. Ann Emerg Med 1989; 18(7):741-6.
Wears RL, Winton CN. Load & go versus stay & play: analysis of prehospital
intravenous fluid therapy by computer simulation. Ann Emerg Med 1990;
19(2):163-8.
Fesmire FM, Percy RF, Wears RL, MacMath TL. Diagnostic and prognostic importance
of comparing the initial to the previous electrocardiogram in patients admitted for
suspected acute myocardial infarction. Southern Med J 1991; 84(7):841-6.
Wears RL, Vukich DJ, Winton CN, Fluskey LL, MacMath TL, Li S. An analysis of
emergency physicians' cumulative career risk of human immunodeficiency virus
infection. Ann Emerg Med 1991; 20(7):749-53.
Roberge RJ, Wears RC. Evaluation of neck discomfort, neck tenderness, and neurologic
deficits as indicators for radiography in blunt trauma victims. J Emerg Med
1992;10(5):539-544.
Luten RC, Wears RL, Broselow J, et al. Length-based endotracheal tube sizing for
pediatric resuscitation. Ann Emerg Med 1992; 21:900-4.
Zappa MJ, Harwood-Nuss AH, Wears RL, Fallon WF. Objective determination of the
optimal red blood cell count in diagnostic peritoneal lavage done for abdominal
stab wounds. J Emerg Med 1992; 10:553-8.
Fallon WF Jr, Wears RL. Prophylactic antibiotics for the prevention of infectious
complications including empyema following tube thoracostomy for trauma:
results of meta-analysis. J Trauma 1992; 33:110-7.
Lewis RJ, Wears RL. An introduction to the Bayesian analysis of clinical trials. Ann
Emerg Med 1993; 22:1328-1336.
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Achem SR, Kolts BE, Wears R, Burton L, Richter JE. Chest pain associated with
nutcracker esophagus: a preliminary study of the role of gastroesophageal reflux.
Am J Gastroent 1993; 88:187-192.
Koch KA, Rodeffer HD, Wears RL. Changing patterns of terminal care management in
an intensive care unit. Crit Care Med 1994;22(2):233-43
Geller AJ, Kolts BE, Achem SR, Wears RL. The high frequency of upper
gastrointestinal pathology in patients with fecal occult blood and colon polyps.
Am J Gastroent 1993; 88:1184-1187.
Wears RL, Winton CN. Simulation modeling of prehospital trauma care. Proc 1993
Winter Simulation Conference 1993; 25:1216-1224.
Fallon WF Jr, Wears RL, Tepas JJ III. Resident supervision in the operating room: does
it impact on outcome? J Trauma 1993; 35:556-561.
Wears RL, Fallon WF Jr. At what risk of empyema is empiric antibiotic therapy justified
in tube thoracostomy for trauma? Theoret Surg 1994; 9:154-159.
Witting MD, Wears RL, Li S. Defining the positive tilt test: a study of healthy adults
with moderate acute blood loss. Ann Emerg Med 1994; 23:1320-3.
Aghababian RV, Barsan WG, Bickell WH, Biros MH, Brown CG, Cairns CB, Callaham
ML, et al, Wears RL, White JD, Zalenski RJ. Research Directions in Emergency
Medicine. Ann Emerg Med 1996; 27:339-42. (Published simultaneously in Acad
Emerg Med, Am J Emerg Med, and J Emerg Med).
Idris AH, Becker LB, Ornato JP, Hedges JR, Bircher NG, Chandra NC, Cummins RO,
Dick W, Ebmeyer U, Halperin HR, Hazinski MF, Kerber RE, Kern KB, Safar P,
Steen PA, Swindle MM, Tsitlik JE, von Planta I, von Planta M, Wears RL, Weil
MH. Utstein-style guidelines for uniform reporting of laboratory CPR research.
Ann Emerg Med 1996; 28:527-541. (Published simultaneously in Resuscitation
and Circulation).
Frenia ML, Schauben JL, Wears RL, Karlix JL, Tucker CA, Kunisaki TA. Multiple-dose
activated charcoal compared to urinary alkalinization for the enhancement of
phenobarbital elimination. J Toxicol Clin Toxicol 1996;34(2):169-75.
Sanchez-Ramos L, Kaunitz AM, Wears RL, Delke I, Gaudier FL. Misoprostol for
cervical ripening and labor induction: a meta-analysis. Obstet Gynecol
1997;89(4):633-42
Callaham MC, Wears RL, Weber EJ, Barton C, Young G. Positive outcome bias and
other limitations in the selection of research abstracts for a scientific meeting.
JAMA 1998; 280:254-7.
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Weber EJ, Callaham MC, Wears RL, Barton C, Young G. Unpublished research from an
emergency medicine meeting: why investigators fail to publish. JAMA 1998;
280:257-9.
Callaham MC, Baxt WG, Waeckerle JF, Wears RL. Reliability of editors’ subjective
quality ratings of peer reviews of manuscripts. JAMA 1998; 280:229-31.
Tepas JJ, Patel JC, DiScala C, Wears RL, Veldenz HC. Relationship of trauma patient
volume to outcome experience: can a relationship be defined? J Trauma 1998;
44:827-31.
Callaham MC, Wears RL, Waeckerle JF. Effect of attendance at a training session on
peer reviewer quality and performance. Ann Emerg Med 1998; 32:318-22.
Luten RC, Broselow J, Wears RL, Blackwelder B. Broselow-Luten system: color-coded
zones for pediatric emergencies and implications for universal application. In:
Proceedings of the Second Annenberg Conference on Enhancing Patient Safety
and Reducing Error in Health Care. Rancho Mirage, CA: National Patient Safety
Foundation; 1998:248-252.
Simon R, Morey JC, Rice M, et al. Reducing errors in emergency medicine through team
performance: the MedTeams project. In: Proceedings of the Second Annenberg
Conference on Enhancing Patient Safety and Reducing Errors in Health Care.
Rancho Mirage, CA: National Patient Safety Foundation; 1998:142-146.
Biros MH, Adams JG, Wears RL. Errors in emergency medicine: A call to action Acad
Emerg Med 2000;7:1173-4.
Croskerry P, Wears RL. Setting an educational agenda and curriculum for error
prevention in emergency medicine. Acad Emerg Med 2000;7:1194-1200.
Vincent C, Simon R, Sutcliffe K, et al. Errors conference: executive summary. Acad
Emerg Med 2000;7(11):1180-1182.
Jockovich M, Cosentino D, Cosentino L, et al. Effect of exogenous melatonin on mood
and sleep efficiency in emergency medicine residents working night shifts. Acad
Emerg Med 2000;7:955-958.
Seaberg DC, Stimler JE, Wears RL. Effect of state legislation prohibiting denial of
emergency department patient claims. Ann Emerg Med 2000;35:267-271.
Vincent C, Simon R, Sutcliffe K, et al. Errors conference: executive summary. Acad
Emerg Med 2000;7:1180-1182.
Wears RL. Models of error and adverse events. Harvard Risk Management Foundation
Forum 2001;21(2):13-16.
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Callaham M, Weber E, Wears R. Citation characteristics of research published in
emergency medicine versus other scientific journals. Ann Emerg Med
2001;38(5):513-7.
Holley MT, Morrissey TK, Seaberg DC, et al. Ethical Dilemmas in a Randomized Trial
of Asthma Treatment: Can Bayesian Statistical Analysis Explain the Results?
Acad Emerg Med 2001;8(12):1128-35.
Wears RL. Reducing errors and adverse events in the ED. http://www.emedhome.com/,
accessed 5/4/2001.
Callaham MC, Wears RL, Weber EJ. Journal prestige, publication bias, and other
characteristics associated with citation of a cohort of original research studies in
peer reviewed journals. JAMA 2002; 287(21):2847-50.
Morey JC, Simon R, Jay GD, et al. Error reduction and performance improvement in the
emergency department through teamwork training: evaluation results of the
MedTeams project. Health Serv Res 2002;37(6):1553 - 81.
Wears RL. Advanced Statistics: Statistical Methods for Analyzing Cluster and Cluster-
randomized Data. Acad Emerg Med 2002;9(4):330-41.
Luten R, Wears RL, Broselow J, et al. Managing the unique size-related issues of
pediatric resuscitation: reducing cognitive load with resuscitation aids. Acad
Emerg Med 2002;9(8):840-7.
Schriger DL, Cooper RJ, Wears RL, Waeckerle JF. The effect of dedicated methodology
and statistical review on published manuscript quality. Ann Emerg Med
2002;40(3):334-7.
Day FC, Schriger DL, Todd C, Wears RL. The use of dedicated methodology and
statistical reviewers for peer review: a content analysis of comments to authors
made by methodology and regular reviewers. Ann Emerg Med 2002;40(3):329-33.
Wears RL, Perry SJ. Human factors and ergonomics in the emergency department. Ann
Emerg Med 2002;40(2):206-12.
Luten R, Wears RL, Broselow J, et al. Managing the unique size-related issues of
pediatric resuscitation: reducing cognitive load with resuscitation aids. Acad
Emerg Med 2002;9(8):840-7.
Jagoda AS, Cantrill SV, Wears RL, et al. Clinical policy: neuroimaging and
decisionmaking in adult mild traumatic brain injury in the acute setting. Ann
Emerg Med 2002;40(2):231-49.
Gray-Eurom K, Seaberg DC, Wears RL. The prosecution of sexual assault cases:
correlation with forensic evidence. Ann Emerg Med 2002;39(1):39-46.
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Wears RL, Perry SJ, Croskerry PG, et al. Center for Safety in Emergency Care: a
developing center for evaluation and research in patient safety. Top Health Info
Manage 2002; 23(2):1-12.
Wears RL. Human error and adverse events in emergency medicine. EM Pulse
2002;7(5):17-20.
Bizovi KE, Wears R, Lowe RA. Researching quality in emergency medicine. Acad
Emerg Med 2002;9(11):1116-23.
Wears RL, Perry SJ, Shapiro M, et al. Shift changes among emergency physicians: best
of times, worst of times. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics
Society 47th Annual Meeting. Denver, CO: Human Factors and Ergonomics
Society; 2003:1420 - 1423.
Wears RL, Perry SJ, Shapiro M, et al. A comparison of manual and electronic status
boards in the emergency department: what's gained and what's lost? In:
Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 47th Annual Meeting.
Denver, CO: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society; 2003:1415 - 1419.
Honderick T, Williams D, Seaberg D, Wears R. A prospective, randomized, controlled
trial of benzodiazepines and nitroglycerine or nitroglycerine alone in the treatment
of cocaine-associated acute coronary syndromes. Am J Emerg Med
2003;21(1):39-42.
Shah A, Frush K, Luo X, Wears RL. Effect of an intervention standardization system on
pediatric dosing and equipment size determination. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med
2003;157(3):229 - 36.
Wears RL, Sutcliffe KM. Promoting heedful interrelating and collective competence in
the emergency department. Focus on Patient Safety 2003;6(3):4 - 5.
Bertholf RL, Perry S, Wears RL. Anatomy of a laboratory error. Journal of Clinical and
Laboratory Science 2003;33(3):360.
Wears RL. Patient Safety in the Emergency Department. Northeast Florida Medicine
2004;55(2):36 - 39.
Mace SE, Barata IA, Cravero JP, et al. Clinical policy: evidence-based approach to
pharmacologic agents used in pediatric sedation and analgesia in the emergency
department. Ann Emerg Med 2004;44(4):342-377. (Published simultaneously in J
Pediatrics and J Emerg Nursing).
Wears RL, Perry SJ, Cook RI. The role of automation in complex system failures.
Journal of Patient Safety 2005; 1(1):56 - 61.
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Wears RL, Perry SJ, Sutcliffe KM. The medicalization of patient safety. Journal of
Patient Safety 2005;1(1):4 - 6.
Wears RL, Perry SJ, Eisenberg E, et al. Conceptual framework for studying shift changes
and other transitions in care. In: Proc Human Factors & Ergonomics Society 48th
Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA: HFES; 2004:1615 - 18.
Wears RL, Perry SJ, Eisenberg E, et al. Transitions in care: signovers in the emergency
department. In: Proc Human Factors & Ergonomics Society 48th Annual
Meeting. New Orleans, LA: HFES; 2004:1625 - 28.
Wears RL. More on computer glitches and laboratory result reporting.
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/23.64.html#subj4, accessed 29 December 2004.
Wears RL, Lyons M, Adams S, Woloshynowych M, Vincent C. Human reliability
analysis in healthcare: a review of techniques. International Journal of Risk and
Safety in Medicine 2004; 16(4):223 – 237.
Millitello L, Patterson E, Wears RL. Large scale coordination in emergency response.
Proceedings of the 49th Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Orlando FL,
2005:535-538.
Khare RK, Uren B, Wears RL. Capturing more emergency department errors via an
anonymous web-based reporting system. Qual Manag Health Care
2005;14(2):91-94.
Kelly J, Wears R, Weir B. Position statement: principles for measuring quality and
reporting incidents and adverse events in. Acad Emerg Med 2005;12(10):1010.
Wears RL. Managing disclosure of adverse events. Risk Rx 2005;2(1):1 - 4.
Eisenberg EM, Murphy AG, Sutcliffe KM, et al. Communication in emergency
medicine: implications for patient safety. Communications Monographs
2005;72(4):390 - 413.
Tighe C, Woloshynowych M, Brown R, et al. Incident reporting in one UK accident and
emergency department. Accident and Emergency Nursing 2005;14(1):27-37.
Perry SJ, Wears RL. Out of synch: the representation of clinical work in a computerized
work tracking system. In: Pikaar RN, Konigsveld EAP, Settels PJM, eds.
Proceedings of the International Ergonomics Association 2006 Congress.
Maastricht, Netherlands: International Ergonomics Association; 2006.
Wears RL, Perry SJ. Shadows and ghosts: the role of hidden information in a US
healthcare setting. In: Pikaar RN, Konigsveld EAP, Settels PJM, eds. Proceedings
of the International Ergonomics Association 2006 Congress. Maastricht,
Netherlands: International Ergonomics Association; 2006.
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Wears RL, Cook RI, Perry SJ. Automation, interaction, complexity, and failure: a case
study. Reliability Engineering and Safety Science 2006;91(12):1494-1501
Patterson ES, Woods DD, Roth EM, Wears RL. Three key levers for achieving resilience
in medication delivery with information technology. Journal of Patient Safety
2006;2(1):33-38
Perry SJ, Wears RL, Chozos P, et al. Consequential analysis of information system
criticality in a healthcare organization. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors and
Ergonomics Society 50th Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA: Human Factors
and Ergonomics Society; 2006:1466-1468.
Wears RL, Perry SJ. Free fall - a case study of resilience, its degradation, and recovery,
in an emergency department. In: Hollnagel E, Rigaud E, eds. 2nd International
Symposium on Resilience Engineering. Juan-les-Pins, France: Mines Paris Les
Presses; 2006:325 - 332.
Perry SJ, Wears RL. Extemporaneous adaptation to evolving complexity. In: Hollnagel
E, Rigaud E, eds. 2nd International Symposium on Resilience Engineering. Juan-
les-Pins, France: Ecole des Mines des Paris; 2006:258 - 263.
Anders S, Woods DD, Wears RL, Perry SJ, Patterson ES. Limits on adaptation:
modeling resilience and brittleness in hospital emergency departments. In:
Hollnagel E, Rigaud E, eds. 2nd International Symposium on Resilience
Engineering. Juan-les-Pins, France: Ecole des Mines des Paris; 2006:1 - 9.
Militello LG, Patterson ES, Bowman L, Wears RL. Information Flow During Crisis
Management: Challenges to coordination in the emergency operations center.
Cognition, Technology & Work 2007; 9(1):25-31.
Lyons MN, Brown R, Wears R. Factors that impact the flow of patients through triage.
Emergency Medicine Journal 2007;24(2):78-85.
Wears RL, Perry SJ. Status boards in accident & emergency departments: support for
shared cognition. Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science 2007;8(5):371-280.
Pennathur P, Bisantz A, Fairbanks RT, et al. Semantic network analysis of shared
communication in an emergency department. Paper presented at 2007 Annual
Industrial Engineering Research Conference. Nashville, TN; 2007.
Perry SJ, Wears RL, Anderson B, Booth A. Peace and war: contrasting cases of resilient
teamwork in healthcare. In: Mosier K, Fischer U, eds. 8th International
Naturalistic Decision-Making Conference. Pacific Grove, CA; 2007:1 - 5.
Wears RL, Perry SJ, Nasca L. 'Free fall' - highly decentralized, resilient adaptation to
demand-capacity mismatches in an emergency department. In: Mosier K, Fischer
U, eds. 8th International Naturalistic Decision-Making Conference. Pacific
Grove, CA; 2007:1 - 5.
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Pennathur PR, Bisantz AM, Fairbanks RJ, Perry SJ, Zwemer FL, Wears RL. Assessing
the impact of computerization on work practice: information technology in
emergency departments. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics
Society 51st Annual Meeting: p 377 - 381. Baltimore, MD: Human Factors and
Ergonomics Society; 2007.
Swing SR, Schneider S, Bizovi K, et al. Using patient care quality measures to assess
educational outcomes. Acad Emerg Med 2007;14(5):463-473.
Wears R, Perry S, Wilson S, et al. Emergency department status boards: user-evolved
artefacts for inter- and intra-group coordination. Cognition, Technology & Work
2007;9(3):163-170.
Pennathur P, Bisantz AM, Fairbanks RJ, Perry SJ, Wears RL. Semantic network analysis
of shared communication in emergency department. In: Proceedings of the 16th
Congress of the International Ergonomics Association. Orlando, FL; 2007.
Luten R, Kahn N, Wears R, Kissoon N. Predicting endotracheal tube size by length in
newborns. J Emerg Med 2007;32(4):343-347.
Wears RL, Perry SJ, McFauls A. Dynamic changes in reliability and resilience in the
emergency department. Paper presented at Proceedings of the 51st Human
Factors and Ergonomics Society. Baltimore, MD; 2007.
Fairbanks RJ, Karn K, Caplan SA, et al. Use Error Hazards from a Popular Emergency
Department Information System. Proceedings of the Usability Professionals
Association 2008 International Conference; 2008.
Crandall B, Wears RL. Expanding Perspectives on Misdiagnosis. American Journal of
Medicine 2008;121(5):S30-S33.
Young J, Woods D, Holl J, et al. Adaptation of US Department of Energy Method of
Design Basis Accident Selection to a Study of Risks to Patients in Pediatric
Medical Care. PSAM 2008.
Wears RL, Perry SJ, McDonald S, Eisenberg E. Notes from underground: the role of
informal communication networks in disjoint understandings of safety in
healthcare organizations. In: Sznelwar LI, Macia FL, Montedo UB, eds. Human
Factors in Organizational Design and Management - IX. São Paulo, Brasil: IEA
Press; 2008:117 - 22.
Berner ES, Ray MN, Schiff GD, Wears RL, Willig J, et al. Closing the feedback loop to
improve diagnostic quality. Proceedings of the AHRQ Patient Safety Conference
Washington, DC; 2008.
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Fairbanks RJ, Guarrera TK, Karn KS, Caplan SH, Shah MN, Wears RL. Interface design
characteristics of a popular emergency department information system.
Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
Meeting: p . New York, NY: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society; 2008.
Pennathur PR, Bisantz AM, Fairbanks RJ, Perry SJ, Zwemer FL, Wears RL. Cognitive
Artifacts in Transition: An Analysis of Information Content Changes Between
Manual and Electronic Patient Tracking Systems. Proceedings of the Human
Factors and Ergonomics Society 52nd Annual Meeting: p . New York, NY:
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society; 2008.
Perry SJ, Wears RL. When worlds collide: two medication systems in one emergency
department. In: Hollnagel E, Pieri F, Rigaud E, eds. 3nd International Symposium
on Resilience Engineering. 28 - 30 October 2008 ed. Juan-les-Pins, France: Mines
ParisTech; 2008:219 - 226.
Wears RL, Perry SJ. A system dynamics representation of resilience. In: Hollnagel E,
Pieri F, Rigaud E, eds. 3nd International Symposium on Resilience Engineering.
28 - 30 October 2008 ed. Juan-les-Pins, France: Mines ParisTech; 2008:291 - 298.
Perry SJ, Wears RL, Chozos N. "It came from within": clinical impact of latent IT
failures on patient safety. Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on
Healthcare Ergonomics and Patient Safety Strasbourg, FR; 2008.
Wears RL, Bisantz AM, Patterson ES, et al. Cognitive engineering approaches to safety
in healthcare. In: 52nd Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. New York, NY:
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society; 2008:231 - 35.
Wears RL, Perry SJ. Semper gumby sub rosa: adaptability in a healthcare setting. In:
52nd Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. New York, NY: Human Factors
and Ergonomics Society; 2008:319 - 22.
Wears RL, Bisantz AM, Xiao Y, et al. Computerized Status Boards in Acute Care
Settings: Promises and Pitfalls. In: American Medical Informatics Association
2008 Annual Symposium. Washington, DC: AMIA; 2008.
Guerrera TK, Fairbanks RJ, Karn KS, Caplan SH, Shah MN, Wears RL. Usability
evaluation of an emergency department information system. Acad Emerg Med
2008;15(5):S27 - S28.
Savitz SI, Levitan EB, Wears R, Edlow JA. Pooled analysis of patients with thunderclap
headache evaluated by CT and LP: is angiography necessary in patients with
negative evaluations? J Neurol Sci 2009;276(1-2):123-125.
Kobayashi L, Overly FL, Fairbanks RJ, Patterson M, Kaji AH, et al. Advanced medical
simulation applications for emergency medicine microsystems evaluation and
training. Acad Emerg Med 2008;15(11):1058-1070.
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Gilardi S, Guglielmetti C, Perry SJ, et al. Changing horses in mid-stream: sudden
changes in plan in dynamic decision problems. In: Wong WA, ed. 9th
International Naturalistic Decision-Making Conference. Covent Garden, London,
UK; 2009:1-2.
Gilardi S, Guglielmetti C, Perry SJ, et al. People, technology and work in health care. In:
Wong WA, ed. 9th International Naturalistic Decision-Making Conference.
Covent Garden, London, UK; 2009:1-2.
Cheung DS, Kelly JJ, Beach C, Berkeley RP, Bitterman RA, et al. Improving Handoffs in
the Emergency Department. Ann Emerg Med 2009.
Feleke R, Kalynych CJ, Lundblom B, Wears R, Luten R, Kling D. Color coded
medication safety system reduces community pediatric emergency nursing
medication errors. J Patient Saf 2009;5(2):79-85.
Jagoda AS, Bazarian JJ, Bruns JJ, Jr., Cantrill SV, Gean AD, et al. Clinical policy:
neuroimaging and decisionmaking in adult mild traumatic brain injury in the
acute setting. J Emerg Nurs 2009;35(2):e5-40.
Karsh B-T, Diercks M, Wears RL, Wetterneck T, Nemeth CP, Alvarado C. Beyond the
Hospital: Human Factors and Ergonomics Issues in the Ambulatory/Outpatient
Care Setting. Proceedings of the 53rd Human Factors and Ergonomics Society: p.
689-693. San Antonio, TX; 2009.
Kobayashi L, Shapiro M, Overly F, Lindquist D, Croskerry P, et al. CMS Transportable
Simulation-Based Training Curriculum in Patient Safety. MedEdPORTAL 2009.
http://services.aamc.org/30/mededportal/servlet/s/segment/mededportal/?subid=5
92, accessed 18 December 2009.
McIntosh MS, Konzelmann J, Smith J, Kalynych CJ, Wears RL, et al. Stabilization and
treatment of dental avulsions and fractures by emergency physicians using just-in-
time training. Ann Emerg Med 2009;54(4):585-592.
O'Neill J, Scott C, Kissoon N, Wludyka P, Wears R, Luten R. Pediatric self-inflating
resuscitators: The dangers of improper setup. J Emerg Med 2009.
Patterson ES, Wears RL, Militello LG, Anders S, Karsh B-T. Medical informatics: what
contributions can human factors make? Proceedings of the 53rd Human Factors
and Ergonomics Society: p 660-663. San Antonio, TX; 2009.
Snow V, Beck D, Budnitz T, Miller DC, Potter J, et al. Transitions of Care Consensus
policy statement: American College of Physicians, Society of General Internal
Medicine, Society of Hospital Medicine, American Geriatrics Society, American
College Of Emergency Physicians, and Society for Academic Emergency
Medicine. J Hosp Med 2009;4(6):364-370.
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Snow V, Beck D, Budnitz T, Miller DC, Potter J, et al. Transitions of Care Consensus
Policy Statement American College of Physicians-Society of General Internal
Medicine-Society of Hospital Medicine-American Geriatrics Society-American
College of Emergency Physicians-Society of Academic Emergency Medicine. J
Gen Intern Med 2009;24(8):971-976.
Wears RL. What makes diagnosis hard? Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract 2009;14
Suppl 1:19-25.
Xiao Y, Fairbanks RJT, Gurses AP, Nemeth CP, Roth EM, Wears RL. User created
cognitive artifacts: what do they inform us about design of information
technology? Proceedings of the 53rd Human Factors and Ergonomics Society: p
694-698. San Antonio, TX; 2009.
Patterson ES, Wears RL. Patient handoffs: standardized and reliable measurement tools
remain elusive. Joint Commission Journal on Quality & Patient Safety
2010;36(2):52-61.
Wears RL. Issues surrounding handoffs. Proceedings of the Computer-Supported
Cooperative Work: Handoffs Workshop Savannah, GA; 2010.
Cheung DS, Kelly JJ, Beach C, Berkeley RP, Bitterman RA, et al. Improving handoffs in
the emergency department. Ann Emerg Med 2010;55(2):171-180.
Pennathur PR, Cao D, Sui Z, Lin L, Bisantz AM, et al. Development of a simulation
environment to study emergency department information technology. Simul
Healthcare 2010;5:103 -111.
Wears RL, Woloshynowych M, Brown R, Vincent CA. Reflective analysis of safety
research in the hospital accident & emergency department. Applied Ergonomics
2010; 41:695 - 700.
Patterson ES, Rogers ML, Tomolo AM, Wears RL, Tsevat JM. Comparison of Extent of
Use, Information Accuracy, and Functions for Manual and Electronic Patient
Status Boards. International Journal of Medical Informatics 2010;79(12):817-
823.
Bisantz AM, Pennathur PR, Guarrera TK, Fairbanks RJ, Perry SJ, et al. Emergency
Department Status Boards: A Case Study in Information Systems Transition.
Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making 2010;4(1):39-68.
Karsh B-T, Weinger MB, Abbott PA, Wears RL. Health information technology:
fallacies and sober realities. Journal of the American Medical Informatics
Association 2010;17(6):617 - 623.
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Melnick ER, Nielson JA, Finnell JT, Bullard MJ, Cantrill SV, et al. Delphi Consensus on
the Feasibility of Translating the ACEP Clinical Policies Into Computerized
Clinical Decision Support. Ann Emerg Med 2010.
Wears RL. Exploring the dynamics of resilience. Paper presented at 54th Human Factors
and Ergonomics Society: p 394 - 398. San Francisco, CA 2010.
Wears RL, Perry SJ. Discourse and process analysis of shift change handoffs in
emergency departments. Paper presented at 54th Human Factors and Ergonomics
Society: p 953 - 956. San Francisco, CA 2010.
Weaver SJ, DiazGranados D, Wears RL, Patterson ES, Rosen MA, et al. Healthcare
recovery: how the science of human factors is challenging healthcare to move
patient safety forward. Paper presented at 54th Human Factors and Ergonomics
Society: p 1274 - 1276. San Francisco, CA 2010.
Caro DA, Andescavage S, Akhlaghi M, Kalynych C, Wears RL. Pupillary Response to
Light Is Preserved in the Majority of Patients Undergoing Rapid Sequence
Intubation. Ann Emerg Med 2011;57(3):234-237.
Handel, D. A., Wears, R. L., Nathanson, L. A., & Pines, J. M. (2011). Using Information
Technology to Improve the Quality and Safety of Emergency Care. Academic
Emergency Medicine, 18(6), e45-e51. doi: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2011.01070.x
Stephens, R. J., Woods, D. D., Branlat, M., & Wears, R. L. (2011). Colliding dilemmas:
interactions of locally adaptive strategies in a hospital setting. Paper presented at
the 4th International Conference on Resilience Engineering, Sophia Antipolis,
France,6 - 8 June 2011.
Wears, R. L., & Webb, L. K. (2011). Fundamental on situational surprise: a case study
with implications for resilience. Paper presented at the 4th International
Conference on Resilience Engineering, Sophia Antipolis, France,6 - 8 June 2011.
Pennathur PR, Cao D, Bisantz AM, Lin L, Fairbanks RJ, et al. Emergency department
patient tracking system evaluation. International Journal of Industrial
Ergonomics 2011;41(4):360-369.
Nemeth, C. P., Wears, R. L., Patel, S., Rosen, G., & Cook, R. I. (2011). Resilience is not
control: healthcare, crisis management, and ICT. Cognition, Technology & Work,
2011; 13(3):189-202 DOI 10.1007/s10111-10011-10174-10117).
Morrison JB, Wears RL. Emergency department crowding: vicious cycles in the ED.
Proceedings of the 29th International System Dynamics Conference: p (In press).
Washington, DC; 2011 http://www.systemdynamics.org/cgi-
bin/sdsweb?A1369+0, accessed 12 August 2011.
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Russ AL, Militello LG, Saleem JJ, Wears RL, Fairbanks RJ, Karsh B-T. Human factors
education for healthcare audiences: ideas for the way forward. Proceedings of the
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 55th Annual Meeting: p 808 - 812. Las
Vegas, NV; 2011.
Bisantz AM, Karsh B-T, Wears RL, Lewis VR, Ancker J, Fairbanks RJ. Health
information technology: can there be meaningful use without meaningful
design?. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 55th Annual
Meeting: p 724 - 728. Las Vegas, NV; 2011.
O'Neill J, Scott C, Kissoon N, Wludyka P, Wears R, Luten R. Pediatric self-inflating
resuscitators: the dangers of improper setup. J Emerg Med 2011;41(6):607-612.
Fee C, Hall K, Morrison JB, Stephens R, Cosby K, et al. Consensus-based
Recommendations for Research Priorities Related to Interventions to Safeguard
Patient Safety in the Crowded Emergency Department. Academic Emergency
Medicine 2011;18(12):1283-1288.
Handel DA, Wears RL, Nathanson LA, Pines JM. Using Information Technology to
Improve the Quality and Safety of Emergency Care. Academic Emergency
Medicine 2011;18(6):e45-e51.
Pines JM, Kelly JJ, Meisl H, Augustine J, Broida RI, et al. Procedural safety in
emergency care: a conceptual model and recommendations. Jt Comm J Qual
Patient Saf 2012;38(11):516-26.
Perry SJ, Wears RL. Underground adaptations: case studies from health care. Cognition,
Technology & Work 2012;14(3):253-260.
Wears RL. Rethinking healthcare as a safety-critical industry. Work 2012;41:4560 - 4563.
Wears RL. Can we make health IT safe enough for patients? Work 2012;41:4484 - 4489.
Wears RL, Parker SH. A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention:
understanding information requirements at handovers. Proceedings of the Human
Factors and Ergonomics Society 56th Annual Meeting: p 860 - 863. Boston,
MA;23 - 27 October 2012.
Beach C, Cheung DS, Apker J, Horwitz LI, Howell EE, et al. Improving Interunit
Transitions of Care Between Emergency Physicians and Hospital Medicine
Physicians: A Conceptual Approach. Acad Emerg Med 2012;19(10):1188 - 1195.
Kessler CS, Asrow A, Beach C, Cheung D, Fairbanks RJ, et al. The Taxonomy of
Emergency Department Consultations-Results of an Expert Consensus Panel. Ann
Emerg Med 2013;61(2):161-166, doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2012.07.122
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Patterson MD, Geis GL, Falcone RA, LeMaster T, Wears RL. In situ simulation:
detection of safety threats and teamwork training in a high risk emergency
department. BMJ Quality & Safety 2013;22(6)468-477,
doi:dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2012-000942
Patterson, MD, Geis, GL, Lemaster, T, & Wears, RL (2012). Impact of multidisciplinary
simulation-based training on patient safety in a paediatric emergency department.
BMJ Quality &Safety 2013;22(5)383-393. doi: 10.1136/bmjqs-2012-000951
Wears RL, Morrison JB. Levels of Resilience: Moving from Resilience to Resilience
Engineering. Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Resilience
Engineering: p in press. Utrecht, the Netherlands;25 - 27 June 2013: Mines
ParisTech.
Hunte, G. S., Sheps, S., & Wears, R. L. (2013). Phronesis and resilience. Proceedings of
the 2nd International Symposium on Resilient Healthcare (pp. in press),
Middelfart, Denmark,24 - 28 August 2013.
Schubert, C., Wears, R. L., & Hunte, G. S. (2013). Patients as sources of resilience.
Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Resilient Healthcare (pp. in
press), Middelfart, Denmark,24 - 28 August 2013.
Wears, R. L., Schubert, C., & Hunte, G. S. (2013). Individual - collective tradeoffs in
healthcare and their implications for resilience. Proceedings of the 2nd
International Symposium on Resilient Healthcare (pp. in press), Middelfart,
Denmark,24 - 28 August 2013.
Wears, R. L., & Tori, E. (2013). Moving from the modernist mythology. Proceedings of
the 2nd International Symposium on Resilient Healthcare (pp. in press),
Middelfart, Denmark,24 - 28 August 2013.
Wears RL. Levels of resilience: moving from resilience to resilience engineering. In:
Hollnagel E, van der Vorm J, Herrera IA, eds. 5th International Symposium on
Resilience Engineering. Soesterberg, Netherlands; 2013:in press.
Hunte GS, Wears RL, Schubert C. Structure, agency, and resilience. In: Hollnagel E, van
der Vorm J, Herrera IA, eds. 5th International Symposium on Resilience
Engineering. Soesterberg, Netherlands; 2013:in press.
Wears RL. Standardisation and its discontents. Cognition, Technology & Work
2014;x(x):(online ahead of print).
Russ AL, Fairbanks RJ, Karsh B-T, Militello LG, Saleem JJ, Wears RL. The science of
human factors: separating fact from fiction. BMJ Quality & Safety
2013;22(10):802-808. DOI 10.1136/bmjqs-2012-001450
Bosch SJ, Wears RL. Resilience engineering: a better way of approaching patient safety?
EDRA Connections 2013(1):7 - 8.
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Hettinger AZ, Fairbanks RJ, Hegde S, Rackoff AS, Wreathall J, et al. An evidence-based
toolkit for the development of effective and sustainable root cause analysis system
safety solutions. Journal of healthcare risk management : the journal of the
American Society for Healthcare Risk Management 2013;33(2):11-20.
Guirgis FW, Gerdik C, Wears R, Williams D, Kalynych C, et al. Proactive rounding by a
rapid response team in a tertiary, academic, level 1 trauma center reduces
inpatient cardiac arrests. Resuscitation 2013; 84(12):1668-1673.
Catchpole K, Salas E, Wiegmann DA, Sarah P, Wears RL, Blocker R. Teamwork and
Handoffs in Trauma Care. Proceedings of the 57th Human Factors and
Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting: p 1104-1108. San Diego, CA;30 September
- 4 October 2013; http://pro.sagepub.com/content/57/1/1104.abstract.
Rivera-Rodriguez AJ, McGuire K, Carayon P, Kleiner B, Wears R, et al. Multi-Level
Ergonomics: Determining How To Bound Your System. Proceedings of the 57th
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting: p 1104-1108. San
Diego, CA;30 September - 4 October 2013;
http://pro.sagepub.com/content/57/1/1104.abstract.
Roth E, Kilgore R, Burns C, Wears R, Lee JD, et al. Cognitive Engineering Across
Domains: What the Wide-angle View can Provide. Proceedings of the 57th
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting: p 139-143. San Diego,
CA;30 September- 4 October 2013;
http://pro.sagepub.com/content/57/1/139.abstract.
Hettinger AZ, Fairbanks RJ, Hegde S, Rackoff AS, Wreathall J, et al. An evidence-based
toolkit for the development of effective and sustainable root cause analysis system
safety solutions. Journal of healthcare risk management: the journal of the
American Society for Healthcare Risk Management 2013;33(2):11-20.
Wears RL. Re: Lawmakers consider broad safety exemptions to bypass FDA.
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/27.77.html#subj7, accessed 5 March 2014.
Wears RL, Hunte GS. Seeing patient safety ‘like a state’. Safety Science 2014;67:50-57.
Guirgis FW, Gerdik C, Wears RL, Kalynych CJ, Sabato J, Godwin SA. Naloxone
Triggering the RRT: A Human Antidote? J Patient Saf 2014; (in press).
Guirgis FW, Khadpe JD, Kuntz GM, Wears RL, Kalynych CJ, Jones AE. Persistent
organ dysfunction after severe sepsis: a systematic review. Journal of Critical
Care 2014;29(3):320-326.
Guirgis FW, Williams DJ, Kalynych CJ, Hardy ME, Jones AE, et al. End-tidal carbon
dioxide as a goal of early sepsis therapy. American Journal of Emergency
Medicine 2014, online ahead of print.
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Fairbanks RJ, Wears RL, D WD, Hollnagel E, Plsek PE, Cook RI. Resilience and
resilience engineering in healthcare. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 2014;40(8):376-
383.
Wears RL. Faster, better, cheaper redux: Federal Health IT safety. The Risks Digest
2014; 27. http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/27.94.html#subj4, accessed 25 May 2014.
Hunte GS, Wears RL. Resilience and power. Proceedings of the 3rd International
Conference on Resilient Health Care Hindsgavl, Denmark;12 - 16 August 2014,
in press.
Wears RL, Hunte GS. Designing procedures for resilience. Proceedings of the 3rd
International Conference on Resilient Health Care Hindsgavl, Denmark;12 - 16
August 2014, in press.
Apker J, Beach C, O’Leary K, Ptacek J, Cheung D, Wears R. Handoff Communication
and Electronic Health Records: Exploring Transitions in Care Between
Emergency Physicians and Internal Medicine/Hospitalist Physicians. Proceedings
of the International Symposium of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare
2014;3(1):162-169.
Clark LN, Guarrera TK, McGeorge NM, Hettinger AZ, Hernandez A, et al. Usability
evaluation and assessment of a novel emergency department IT system developed
using a cognitive systems engineering approach. Proceedings of the International
Symposium of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare 2014;3(1):76-80.
Editorials:
Wears RL. Use of computers in emergency medicine. Am J Emerg Med 1988; 7(1):120.
Wears RL. Predicting the demand for emergency medical services. Ann Emerg Med
1989; 18(6):705-6.
Wears RL. Computer database for ED visits. Ann Emerg Med 1992; 21(1):67-68.
Wears RL. Shared decisionmaking: easier said than done. Ann Emerg Med 1996;
28:702-4.
Wears RL, Lewis RJ. Statistical models and Occam's razor. Acad Emerg Med 1999;6:93-
94.
Wears RL, Leape LL. Human error in emergency medicine. Ann Emerg Med
1999;34:370-2.
Wears RL. Estimating the cost of medical care. Ann Emerg Med 1999;34(4 Pt 1):535-
537.
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Wears RL. The aerial palaces of decision analysis redux. Acad Emerg Med 2000;7:380-
382.
Wears RL. Beyond error. Acad Emerg Med 2000;7:1175-1176.
Wears RL. Dueling meta-analyses. Ann Emerg Med 2000;36:234-236.
Wears RL, Janiak B, Moorhead JC, et al. Human error in medicine: promise and pitfalls,
part 1. Ann Emerg Med 2000;36:58-60.
Wears RL, Janiak B, Moorhead JC, et al. Human error in medicine: promise and pitfalls,
part 2. Ann Emerg Med 2000;36:142-144.
Vincent CA, Wears RL. Communication in the emergency department: separating the
signal from the noise. Med J Aust 2002;176(9):409-10.
Wears RL, Wu AW. Dealing with failure: the aftermath of errors and adverse events. Ann
Emerg Med 2002;39(3):344-6.
Wears RL. Headaches from practice guidelines. Ann Emerg Med 2002;39(3):334-7.
Wears RL. How many emergency department visits are there? Ann Emerg Med
2003;41(3): 319-21.
Wears RL. A different approach to safety in emergency care. Ann Emerg Med
2003;38(3):334 -36.
Schriger D, Wears R, Cooper R, Callaham M. Upgrading our instructions for authors.
Ann Emerg Med 2003;41(4):565-67.
Cooper R, Wears R, Schriger D. Reporting research results: Recommendations for
improving communication. Ann Emerg Med 2003;41(4):561-64.
Wears RL. Commentary: Still learning how to learn. Qual Safe Health Care
2003;12(6):471-72.
Wears RL. The limits of techne and episteme. Ann Emerg Med 2004; 43(1):15-16.
Wears R. Reaching first Bayes. Ann Emerg Med 2004;43(4):447-48.
Magid DJ, Asplin BR, Wears RL. The quality gap: searching for the consequences of
emergency department crowding. Ann Emerg Med 2004;44(6):586-588.
Nemeth C, O'Connor M, Cook R, et al. Crafting information technology solutions, not
experiments, for the emergency department. Acad Emerg Med
2004;11(11):1114-17.
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Wears RL, Cook RI. The illusion of explanation. Acad Emerg Med 2004;11(10):1064 -
65.
Wears RL. Organizations and safety in health care. Qual Safe Health Care 2004;13 Suppl
2:ii1.
Wears RL. What I learned on sabbatical that I did not plan to learn. SAEM Newsletter
2005;17(4):9.
Wears RL, Schiff GD. One cheer for feedback. Ann Emerg Med 2005;45(1):24.
Wears RL, Magid DJ. Thinking globally, acting locally. Ann Emerg Med 2005;46(1):61-
63.
Magid D, Wears RL. Stroking the data: reanalysis of the NINDS study. Ann Emerg
Med 2005; 45(4):385 - 388.
Wears RL, Berg M. Computer Technology and Clinical Work: Still Waiting for Godot.
JAMA 2005;293(10):1261-1263.
Wears RL. Keep the celebrations short. Qual Safe Health Care 2005;14(3):154.
Wears RL, Cooper R, Magid DJ. Subgroups, re-analyses, and other dangerous things.
Ann Emerg Med 2005;46(3):253-255.
Wears RL. Patient Satisfaction and the Curse of Kelvin. Ann Emerg Med 2005;46(1):11.
Wears RL. Heart bone connected to the … trauma bone? Ann Emerg Med 2006;
48(4):355-357.
Wears RL, Nemeth CP. Replacing hindsight with insight: towards a better understanding
of diagnostic failures. Ann Emerg Med 2007; 49(2):206-209
Nemeth CP, Cook RI, Wears RL. Studying the technical work of emergency care. Ann
Emerg Med 2007;50(4):384-386.
Wears RL. The error of chasing 'error'. Northeast Florida Medicine 2007;58(3):30 - 31.
Wears RL, Woods D, D. Always Adapting. Ann Emerg Med 2007;50(5):517-519.
Wears RL. Lost in Translation. Ann Emerg Med 2008;51(1):78 - 79.
Wears RL. The Chart is Dead -- Long Live the Chart. Ann Emerg Med 2008; 52(4):390-
391.
Fairbanks RJ, Wears RL. Hazards With Medical Devices: The Role of Design. Ann
Emerg Med 2008;52(5):519-21.
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Wears RL. The Error of Counting 'Errors'. Ann Emerg Med 2008;52(5):502-03.
Wears RL, Karsh B-T. Thick Versus Thin: Description Versus Classification in Learning
From Case Reviews. Ann Emerg Med 2008;51(3):262-64.
Bisantz AM, Wears RL. Forcing functions: the need for restraint. Ann Emerg Med 2009;
53(4):477-479.
Hamedani AG, Wears RL. Anyone, anything, anytime...All the time. Ann Emerg Med
2009;53(6):724-726.
Murphy AG, Wears RL. The medium is the message: communication and power in sign-
outs. Ann Emerg Med 2009;54(3):379 - 380.
Patterson ES, Wears RL. Beyond "Communication Failure". Ann Emerg Med
2009;53(6):711-712.
Wears RL. Situated vs regulatory rationality. Ann Emerg Med 2010;55(1):15 - 16.
Wears RL, Nelson LS. Believing is seeing. Annals of Emergency Medicine
2010;55(6):511 - 512.
Wears RL, Normand S-LT. When less is more: using shrinkage to increase accuracy.
Annals of Emergency Medicine 2010;55(6):553 - 555.
Wears RL, Cook RI. Getting Better at Doing Worse. Ann Emerg Med 2010;56(5):465 -
467.
Wears RL. Risk, radiation, and rationality. Ann Emerg Med 2011;58(1):9-11.
Wears RL. The hunting of the snark, 2011. Ann Emerg Med 2011;58(5):465-467.
Wears RL. The irony of using HIT to promote healthcare safety. EMPulse 2012;17(3):20
- 23.
Wears RL. Work, visible and invisible. Ann Emerg Med 2012; 59(5):374-375.
Wears RL. Poverty amid plenty. BMJ Quality and Safety 2012; 21(7):5330534.
Lemaster C, Wears RL, Schriger D. To err is human; to understand why, divine. Ann
Emerg Med 2012; 60(5):564-566.
Wears RL, Kneebone R. Orthodoxy in safety research -- time for a Reformation. Ann
Emerg Med 2012;60(5):580-581.
Lemaster CH, Wears RL. Stepping back: why patient safety is in need of a broader view
than the safety climate survey provides. Ann Emerg Med 2012;60(5):564-566.
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Wears RL. Two Cheers for Regulation. Ann Emerg Med 2013;63(5):598-5994
Wears RL. The tragedy of adaptability. Ann Emerg Med 2014;63(3):338-339.
Wears RL. Risky business. Ann Emerg Med 2014;63(2):137-139.
Wears RL. Diagnosing diagnosis. Ann Emerg Med 2014 (online ahead of print)
Wears RL. Health information technology and victory. Ann Emerg Med 2014 (online
ahead of print)
Book Chapters:
Wears RL. Abdominal aortic aneurysms, in Harwood-Nuss AH, ed, The Clinical
Practice of Emergency Medicine. Philadelphia, JB Lippincott, 1995 & 1999.
Wears RL. Approach to the patient in the ED, in Harwood-Nuss AH, ed, The
Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine. Philadelphia, JB Lippincott, 1995,
1999, 2005, 2008, 2009, and 2015 (in press).
Cosby K, Vinen J, Wears RL. Patient safety in the ED, in Harwood-Nuss AH, ed,
The Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine. Philadelphia, JB Lippincott, 2005,
pp 1803 – 1806.
Croskerry PG, Perry SJ, Shapiro M, Wears RL. Patient safety and process
improvement, in Marx, J ed., Emergency Medicine, St Louis, MO: Mosby, 2005.
Wears RL. The science of safety. In: Zipperer L, ed. A Primer on Patient Safety.
Chicago, IL: National Patient Safety Foundation, 2001, pp 1 – 6.
Croskerry PG, Wears RL. Patient Safety. In: Markovchick V, Pons P, eds. Emergency
Medicine Secrets. 4th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Hanley and Belfus; 2003 and 2006.
Wears RL, Bisantz AM, Perry SJ, Fairbanks RJ. Consequences of technical change in
cognitive artefacts for managing complex work. In: Carayon P, Robertson M,
Kliener B, Hoonakker PLT, eds. Human Factors in Organizational Design and
Management - VIII. Santa Monica, CA: IEA Press; 2005:317 - 322.
Perry SJ, Wears RL, Shapiro M, et al. Transitions in care: signovers in emergency
departments. In: Tartaglia R, Bagnara S, Bellandi T, Albolino S, eds. Healthcare
Systems, Ergonomics and Patient Safety. Leiden, NE: Taylor & Francis; 2005:220
- 23.
Wears RL, Perry SJ, Salas E, Burke CS. Status boards in emergency departments:
Support for shared cognition. In: Tartaglia R, Bagnara S, Bellandi T, Albolino S,
eds. Healthcare Systems, Ergonomics and Patient Safety. Leiden, NE: Taylor &
Francis; 2005:273 - 80.
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Behara R, Wears RL, Perry SJ, et al. Conceptual framework for the safety of
handovers. In: Advances in Patient Safety. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality / Department of Defense; 2005:309 - 321.
Wears, RL, Perry SJ. Human Factors and Ergonomics in the Emergency Department.
In: Carayon P, ed. Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Patient
Safety, 2007, pp 851 – 863.
Wears, RL, Perry SJ, Anders S, Woods DD. Resilience in the emergency department.
In: Hollnagel E, Dekker S, eds. Resilience Engineering: Remaining Open to the
Possibility of Failure. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate; 2008, p 193-210.
Murphy A, Eisenberg E, Wears RL, Perry S. Streams of action: power, authority, and
deference in emergency medicine. In: Zoller HM, Dutta MJ, eds. Emerging
Perspectives in Health Communication: Meaning, Culture, and Power. New
York, NY: Routledge; 2008:275 - 92.
Nemeth CP, Wears RL. An agenda for healthcare team communication research. In:
Nemeth CP, ed. Improving Healthcare Team Communication: Building on
Lessons from Aviation and Aerospace. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate; 2008: 245 - 50.
Fairbanks RJ, Rueckmann RA, Kolstee KE, Hays DP, Cobaugh DJ, et al. Clinical
Pharmacists in Emergency Medicine. In: K H, Battles JB, Keyes MA, Grady ML,
eds. Advances in patient safety: New directions and alternative approaches.
AHRQ Publication No. 08-0034-1 ed. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare
Research and Qualilty; 2008.
Henriksen K, Oppenheimer C, Leape LL, Hamilton K, Bates DW, et al. Envisioning
patient safety in the year 2025: eight perspectives. In: K H, Battles JB, Keyes
MA, Grady ML, eds. Advances in patient safety: New directions and alternative
approaches. AHRQ Publication No. 08-0034-1 ed. Rockville, MD: Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality; 2008: pp 3 - 15.
Nemeth C, Wears R, Woods D, Hollnagel E, Cook R. Minding the gaps: creating
resilience in healthcare. In: K H, Battles JB, Keyes MA, Grady ML, eds.
Advances in patient safety: New directions and alternative approaches. AHRQ
Publication No. 08-0034-3 ed. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research
and Qualilty; 2008: pp 1 -13.
Perry SJ, Wears RL, Patterson ES. High-hanging fruit: improving transitions in
healthcare. In: K H, Battles JB, Keyes MA, Grady ML, eds. Advances in patient
safety: New directions and alternative approaches. AHRQ Publication No. 08-
0034-3 ed. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2008:
pp 1 - 9.
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Wears RL, Levenson NG. "Safeware": safety-critical computing and healthcare
information technology. In: K H, Battles JB, Keyes MA, Grady ML, eds.
Advances in patient safety: New directions and alternative approaches. AHRQ
Publication No. 08-0034-4 ed. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research
and Qualilty; 2008: pp 1 - 10.
Berner ES, Ray MN, Schiff GD, et al. Closing the feedback loop to improve
diagnostic quality. In: AHRQ Patient Safety Conference. Washington, DC; 2008.
Nemeth CP, Wears RL, Walter J, Cook RI. Resilience is not control: healthcare,
crisis management, and ICT. In: Hollnagel E, Nemeth CP, Dekker SWA, eds.
Information and Communications Technology in Crisis Management. Aldershot,
UK: Ashgate; 2010.
Perry SJ, Wears RL. Notes from underground: latent resilience in healthcare. In:
Nemeth CP, Hollnagel E, Dekker SWA, eds. Resilience Engineering
Perspectives: Preparation and Restoration. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate; 2009: pp
167 - 178.
Perry SJ, Wears RL. Coping with chaos: coordination of work in healthcare. In:
Mosier K, Fischer U, eds. Informed By Knowledge: Expert Performance in
Complex Situations.: Taylor & Francis; p 55-68.
GRA/ORR Joint Committee on Patient Safety and Graduate Medical Education.
Patient Safety and Graduate Medical Education. Chicago, IL: Association of
American Medical Colleges, 2003.
Patterson ES, Wears RL. Measurement approaches for transitions of authority and
responsibility during handoffs. In: Patterson ES, Miller J, eds. Macrocognition
Metrics and Scenarios: Design and Evaluation for Real-World Teams: Ashgate;
2010: pp 174 - 206.
Perry SJ, Wears RL, McDonald SS. Implementing teamwork training in the
emergency department: the good, the unexpected, and the problematic. In: Salas
E, Frush K, eds. Improving Patient Safety through Teamwork and Team Training.
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press; 2012: pp 129 - 135.
Wears RL, Perry SJ, Patterson ES. Handoffs and Transitions in Care. In: Carayon P,
ed. Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient
Safety. 2nd ed. Mahway, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates; 2011: pp 163 - 171.
Perry SJ, Wears RL, Fairbanks RJ. Human factors and ergonomics in the emergency
department. In: Carayon P, ed. Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in
Health Care and Patient Safety. 2nd ed. Mahway, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates; 2011: pp 709 - 722.
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Koppel R, Davidson S, Wears RL, Sinsky CA. Health care information technology to
the rescue. In: Koppel R, Gordon S, eds. First Do Less Harm: Confronting the
Inconvenient Problems of Patient Safety. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press;
2012: pp 62 - 89.
Wears RL, Sutcliffe KS, Van Rite E. A Brief History of Patient Safety. In Zipperer
L, ed. Patient Safety: Evidence, Information, and Knowledge, 2014, in press.
Baird, P., Carroll, J. S., Conger, D., Gallogly, K. W., Martin, J., Siewko, D., Stone,
K., et al. (2013). Root cause analysis and corrective action. In M. B. Weinger, B.
P. Hallbert & M. J. Logan (Eds.), Risk and Reliability in Healthcare and Nuclear
Power (pp. 81 - 98). Arlington, VA: AAMI.
Perry SJ, Wears RL, McDonald SS. Implementing teamwork training in the
emergency department: the good, the unexpected, and the problematic. In: Salas
E, Frush K, eds. Improving Patient Safety through Teamwork and Team Training.
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press; 2012: pp 129 - 135.
Wears RL, Vincent CA. Relying on resilience: too much of a good thing? In:
Hollnagel E, Braithwaite J, Wears RL, eds. Resilient Health Care. Farnham, UK:
Ashgate; 2013: pp 135 - 144.
Hollnagel E, Braithwaite J, Wears RL. Epilogue: How to make healthcare resilient.
In: Hollnagel E, Braithwaite J, Wears RL, eds. Resilient Health Care. Farnham,
UK: Ashgate; 2013: pp 227 - 238.
Hollnagel E, Braithwaite J, Wears RL. Preface: On the need for resilience in
healthcare. In: Hollnagel E, Braithwaite J, Wears RL, eds. Resilient Health Care.
Farnham, UK: Ashgate; 2013: pp xix - xxvi.
Wears RL, Webb LK. Fundamental on situational surprise: a case study with
implications for resilience. In: Nemeth CP, Hollnagel E, eds. Becoming Resilient.
Farnham, UK: Ashgate; 2014: pp 33 - 36.
Wears RL, Hollnagel E, Braithwaite J. Preface. In: Wears RL, Hollnagel E,
Braithwaite J, eds. The Resilience of Everyday Clinical Work. Farnham, UK:
Ashgate, in press, release 2015.
Wears RL, Schubert CC, Hunte GS. Individual-collective tradeoffs: implications for
resilience. In: Wears RL, Hollnagel E, Braithwaite J, eds. The Resilience of
Everyday Clinical Work. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, in press, release 2015.
Schubert CC, Wears RL, Holden RJ. Patients as a source of resilience. In: Wears
RL, Hollnagel E, Braithwaite J, eds. The Resilience of Everyday Clinical Work.
Farnham, UK: Ashgate, in press, release 2015.
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Books, Reports and Monographs
Wears RL. Taylorism Redux: The Role of Authoritarian High Modernism in Patient
Safety and Healthcare. Halifax Forum, 2003.
Wears RL. Book Review. Resilience Engineering: Concepts and Precepts. Quality &
Safety in Health Care 2006;15(6):447-448.
Woloshynowych M, Davis R, Brown R, Wears RL, Vincent C, Lyons M. Enhancing
Safety in Accident and Emergency Care. London, UK: Patient Safety Research
Programme; 2007,
http://www.haps2.bham.ac.uk/publichealth/psrp/documents/PS010_A_and_E_Vin
cent_et_al_2007.pdf, accessed 7 October 2011, 61 pages.
Cosby K, Schenkel S, Wears RL, Croskerry P, eds. Patient Safety in Emergency
Care. Lippincott Williams Wilkins, 2009, 428 pages.
Success Without Victory: A Conversation with Professor Robert L Wears. EMPulse
2009; 14(6):20 – 21.
Wears, RL. Exploring the Dynamics of Resilience. PhD thesis, École Nationale
Superior des Mines de Paris, 227 pages, Paris, France. Available at
http://pastel.archives-ouvertes.fr/pastel-00664145
Hollnagel E, Braithwaite J, Wears RL (eds). Resilience in Healthcare. Farnham, UK:
Ashgate; 2013, 292 pgs.
Wears, RL, Hollnagel E, Braithwaite J (eds). Resilience in Everyday Clinical Work.
Farnham, UK: Ashgate; in press, release spring 2015.
Abstracts (not listed if later published as full paper):
Spillane JP, Schauben JL, Li S, Norman SA, Wears RL, Rose SR, Augenstein WL. A
retrospective evaluation of poisoning exposures in infants 0-12 months of age
[abstract]. Veterinary & Human Toxicology 1989; 31:350. (Presented at
American Association of Poison Control Centers Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA,
1989).
Vukich DJ, Fluskey LL, McPherson JR, Wear RL. The prehospital use of sublingual
nifedipine in hypertensive urgencies and emergencies [abstract]. Ann Emerg Med
1990; 19(4):459.
Khan NS, Luten RC, Wears RL. Length-based resuscitation tape for preterm and
term newborns [abstract]. Ann Emerg Med 1993; 22:914. (Presented at Society
for Academic Emergency Medicine, San Francisco, CA, 1993).
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Wears RL, Kunisaki TA. High-dose epinephrine in cardiac arrest: results of meta-
analysis [abstract]. Ann Emerg Med 1993; 22:933. (Presented at Society for
Academic Emergency Medicine, San Francisco, CA, 1993).
Wears RL. A method for identifying and adjusting for sample-size-related
publication bias in the meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials [abstract].
Med Decis Making 1993; 13:401.
Wears RL, Stenklyft PH, Luten RC. Using decision tables to verify the logical
consistency and completeness of clinical guidelines: fever without source in
children under three years. Acad Emerg Med 1994; 1:A35.
Wears RL, Ward RA. The marginal cost of low acuity emergency department visits.
Acad Emerg Med 1995; 2:350. (Presented at Society for Academic Emergency
Medicine, San Antonio, TX, 1995).
Wears RL, Seaberg DS, Perry SJ. Imbalance of power: a problem with informal
cost-effectiveness analyses. Acad Emerg Med 1997; 4(5):516. (Presented at
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Washington, DC, 1997).
Lauer D, Perry SJ, Luten RC, Wears RL. Pre- and post-training video analysis of
emergency medicine residents performing intubations using rapid sequence
intubation (abstract). Ann Emerg Med 2000;36(4):360. (Presented at Society for
Academic Emergency Medicine, San Francisco, CA, 2000)
Elliott C, Wears RL. Emergency department overcrowding and the nursing
shortage: a resident’s perspective. (Presented at UF Research Day, April 2004).
Patterson MD, Geis GL, Wears RL. Unexpected benefits of simulation-based
teamwork training: detection of latent safety threats.
http://www.abstracts2view.com/pas/view.php?nu=PAS6L1_2936, accessed 17
May 2006.
Patterson MD, Geis GL, Wears RL. Implementation of a simulation-based patient
safety curriculum in a pediatric emergency department.
http://www.abstracts2view.com/pas/view.php?nu=PAS6L1_2622, accessed 17
May 2006.
Wreathall J, Wears RL, Perry SJ. A PRA-based evaluation of alternative white
boards in an ED setting. Paper presented at PSAM 10 Seattle, WA; 2010.
Akhlagi M, Swanson T, Brimblecom D, Wears RL, Kalynych C, Kumar V, Lott M.
Accuracy of ECG interpretations by emergency medicine residents and the
efficacy of immediate feedback by attending. (Presented at Duval County
Medical Society, 1 December 2010).
Taira BR, Wears RL, Callaham M. Acceptance rates for qualitative studies in
emergency medicine [abstract]. Ann Emerg Med 2012;60(4 Suppl):S35-S36.
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Garg N, Wears RL. System dynamics as a tool to understand the operations of an
emergency department. Acad Emerg Med 2014:(in press).
Garg N, Wears RL, Genes N. Simulation to learn emergency eepartment
management. Acad Emerg Med 2014:(in press).
Letters:
Wears RL. Blood gases in hypothermia [letter]. JACEP 1979; 8(6):247.
Wears RL. Mechanical ECC not yet warranted [letter]. Ann Emerg Med 1981;
10(3):165
Wears RL, Kamens DR. Predictive instrument to improve coronary-care-unit admission
practices [letter]. N Engl J Med 1984; 311(19):1253-4.
Wears RL, Kamens DR. Mega-groups: major problem facing emergency medicine
[letter]. Ann Emerg Med 1985; 14(1):83-4.
Kamens DR, Wears RL. DRG death: report of a case [letter]. Ann Emerg Med 1985;
14(3):281.
Wears RL. Error in statistical significance [letter]. Ann Emerg Med 1986; 15(6):766.
Wears RL. Evaluation of emergency IVP use [letter]. Ann Emerg Med 1986;
15(11):1375-6.
Wears RL. Testing in emergency medicine [letter]. Ann Emerg Med 1987; 16(4):473-4.
Fesmire FM, Percy RF, Wears RL. In-hospital outcome of patients with coronary artery
disease in whom myocardial infarction has been ruled out [letter]. N Engl J Med
1989; 320(21):1423-4.
Sanchez-Ramos L, Wears RL. Acute pyelonephritis in pregnancy: a prospective study
of oral versus intravenous antibiotic therapy [letter]. Obstet Gynecol 1990;
76(5 pt 1):891-2.
Petri RW, Wears RL. Data collection and observer bias [letter]. Ann Emerg Med 1990;
19(5):614.
Wears RL, Li S. Quantitative analysis of litigation costs [letter]. Ann Emerg Med 1990;
19(6):733.
Fesmire FM, Percy RF, Wears RL. Decision-making in patients with suspected AMI
[letter]. Ann Emerg Med 1992; 21:1167-8
Wears RL. Log-linear modeling [letter]. Ann Emerg Med 1993; 22:1240.
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Wears RL. What is necessary for proof? Is 95% sure unrealistic [letter]? JAMA 1994;
271:272.
Wears RL. Practice profiles [letter]. N Engl J Med 1994; 331:202-3.
Wears RL. Rationing resources while improving quality [letter]. JAMA 1995;273:995-6.
Callaham ML, Weber W, Young G, Wears R, Barton C. Time to publication of studies
was not affected by whether results were positive [letter]. BMJ 1998 316: 1536.
Dunn JD, Wears RL. The November Special Issue on Errors (letter, authors’ response).
Acad Emerg Med 2001;8(6):686-88.
Wears RL. Comments on "Clinical decision making: an emergency medicine
perspective" [letter]. Acad Emerg Med 2000;7:411-412; discussion 412-414.
Wears RL. Six sigma is really only 4.5 sigma. BMJ rapid responses.
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/328/7432/162#50383, accessed 3 March
2004.
Wears RL, Berg M. Computers and clinical work (authors’ response). JAMA
2005;294(2):181 - 182.
Wears RL. Response to commentaries on Koppel et al. Journal of Biomedical Informatics
2005;38(6):e1-e1.
Luten RC, Zaritsky A, Wears R, Broselow J. The use of the Broselow tape in pediatric
resuscitation. Acad Emerg Med 2007;14(5):500-501; author reply 501-502.
Luten R, Kahn N, Wears R, Kissoon N. Predicting endotracheal tube size by length in
newborns. J Emerg Med 2007;32(4):343-347.
Wears RL. In reply to Lang, O'Shaughessy. Ann Emerg Med 2008;51(6):793-794.
Wears RL. In reply to Sargeant et al. Ann Emerg Med 2008;52(5):576-77.
Wears RL. In reply to Grahm et al. Ann Emerg Med 2009; 54(2):314 .
Wears RL. Curious bootstrap estimates.
http://www.bmj.com/content/341/bmj.c5204/reply#bmj_el_246361, accessed 13
December 2010.
Saleem, J. J., Patterson, E. S., Russ, A. L., & Wears, R. L. (2011). The need for a broader
view of human factors in the surgical domain. Archives of Surgery, 146(5), 631-
632. doi: 10.1001/archsurg.2011.72
Wears RL. Lessons From the Glasgow Coma Scale. Ann Emerg Med 2012;59(4):338.
Wears RL. In reply to Dr Schwartz. Ann Emerg Med 2012;59(5):446.
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Russ AL, Weiner M, Saleem JJ, Wears RL. When 'technically preventable' alerts occur,
the design -- not the prescriber -- has failed. JAMIA 2012;19(6):1119.
Russ AL, Militello LG, Saleem JJ, Fairbanks RJ, Wears RL. Response to Separating Fact
from Opinion: A Response to 'The Science of Human Factors: Separating Fact
from Fiction'. BMJ Quality & Safety 2013;22(11):964-966.
Wears RL, Hettinger AZ. In reply to Schneider. Ann Emerg Med 2014;63(5):651.
Contracts and Grants
Principal Investigator, Simulation Modeling of Prehospital Emergency Medical Services
State of Florida HRS/EMS Matching Grant #LPN68
$24,400.00 1988-1989
Co-investigator, Emergency Medical Services for Children
Bureau of Maternal and Child Health
$760,319.00 1987-1988
Co-investigator, Computer-based Community-wide Immunization Tracking
City of Jacksonville/Division of HHS
$49,000.00 1991-1992
Principal Investigator, Florida Poison Centers Data System
Florida HRS/Children's Medical Services
$150,000.00 1994
Principal Investigator, Florida Statewide Poison Centers Data System
Florida HRS/Children's Medical Services
$500,000.00 1996-1997
Site Principal Investigator, Emergency Team Coordination Course
Army Research Laboratory / Dynamics Research Corporation 1997-2001
$460,000.00
Steering Committee, IAIMS Planning Grant
National Library of Medicine 1999-2001
$150,000
Principal Investigator, Errors in Emergency Care: A Convergence Approach
National Patient Safety Foundation 2001-2003
$99,500
Principal Investigator, Organizational Foundations of Patient Safety
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (R13 HS10952-01) 2001
$44,000.
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Principal Investigator, Developmental Centers for Evaluation & Research on Patient
Safety
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (P20 HS11592) 2001-2004
$600,000
Co-investigator, Transitions in Care
National Patient Safety Foundation 2003-2004
$94,000
Principal Investigator, Human Factors Analysis of Automated Dispensing Units
American Society of Health Systems Pharmacists 2003
$60,000
Principal Investigator, Defining and Enhancing Safety Culture
Florida Agency for Healthcare Administration 2004
$75,000
Principal Investigator, Teaching Disclosure of Adverse Events
Florida Agency for Healthcare Administration 2004
$105,000
Principal Investigator, Research Methods in Patient Safety
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Scholarly Sabbatical 2004-2005
$60,000
Principal Investigator, Safety Implications of Computerizing the Whiteboard
Emergency Medicine Foundation 2005 - 2007
$100,000
Principal Investigator, Analysis of the Critical Event (Code 15) Reporting System
Florida Patient Safety Corporation 2006
$54,000
Co-investigator, Emergency Department Simulation for Research and Training in
Healthcare Information Technology
(L Lin, University of Buffalo, PI)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (1 U18 HS016672-01) 2006-2008
$598,057
Scientific Director, Florida Patient Safety Corporation 2007-2009
$150,000
Principal Investigator, Proactive Risk Assessment in the ED: Building the ‘Safety Case’
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (1 P20 HS017141-01) 2007-2008
$197,261
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Site Principal Investigator, Closing the Feedback Loop: Effect of Feedback on
Diagnostic Performance
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (1 R13 HS017406-01) 2007-2009
$261,800
Key Personnel, LEARN (Leveraging Existing Assessments of Risk Now)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (1 P20 HS017114-01) 2007-2008
$199,313
Principal Investigator, Reducing Risks by Engineering Resilience into Health Information
Technology for Emergency Departments.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (1 R18 HS017902-01) 2008 – 2011
$891,435
National Institutes of Health (NIBIB) K08 Mentored Clinical Scientist Award
(1K08EB009090-01)
“Human factors engineering approach to optimize design of imaging systems for non-
radiologists” (PI: RJ Fairbanks). Mentored Career Development Award
Role: Advisement Committee Member; (in kind effort, 8/2009 - 7/2013).
Principal Investigator
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research
Medicalizing Patient Safety
$300,000 2010 - 2013
Principal Investigator
National Heart Lung & Blood Institute (1 R21 HL098875-010)
System dynamic modeling of emergency department and hospital crowding
$365,141 2010 - 2012
Morrison JB (PI), Wears RL (Co-I).
National Institute of General Medicine (R01 GM105049-01)
System Dynamics Modeling of Multi-level Coping Responses to Understand Resilience
during Emergency Department Overcrowding.
$729,324
Nugus, P (PI).Wears RL (Co-I)
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Planning Grant
Translating Knowledge to Organizational Change: Exploring the Role of Video
Ethnography to Promote Clinical Learning and Health System Improvement
$21,777 CAD
Testimony given before Federal agencies:
Wears RL. Patient Safety in Emergency Care. National Summit on Medical Errors and
Patient Safety, September 2000. http://www.quic.gov/summit/aswears.htm,
accessed 17 October 2000.
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Wears RL, Sutcliffe KM. Patient Safety at the Organizational Level. National Summit on
Medical Error and Patient Safety Research, September 2000.
http://www.quic.gov/summit/aswearsut.htm, accessed 17 October 2000.
Wears RL, Simon R. Creating Complementary Roles for Behavioral Solutions and
Technology Applications in Patient Safety. National Summit on Medical Error
and Patient Safety Research, September 2000.
http://www.quic.gov/summit/aswearsut.htm, accessed 17 October 2000.
Wears RL. Tort Reform and Patient Safety. Office of the Secretary, Dept of Health
and Human Services, Jacksonville, FL, 17 December 2002.
Inventions, Patents, Other Creative Works
2003 Design for Prevention of Guidewire Embolization. “Non-migrating
percutaneous guidewire”, UF #11346, US patent pending.
2004 Wears, RL, Buckman R, Perry SJ. How to Manage Disclosure of Adverse
Events. Teaching DVD.
2012 Sutcliffe KM, Wears RL. The Need for Pluralism. Robert Wood Johnson
Human Capital blog.
http://blog.rwjf.org/humancapital/2012/09/14/the-need-for-pluralism/
accessed 14 September 2014.
2014 Wears, RL. The Joy of Slack. Resilience Healthcare Learning Network.
http://resiliencehealthcarelearningnetwork.ca/blog/the-joy-of-slack,
accessed 30 January 2014