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List of works by Alan Merry

A behaviourally anchored rating scale for evaluating the use of the WHO surgical safety checklist: development and initial evaluation of the WHOBARS.

scientific article published on 20 November 2015

A new infusion syringe label system designed to reduce task complexity during drug preparation

scientific article published in May 2007

A prospective, observational study of the effects of implementation strategy on compliance with a surgical safety checklist

scientific article published on 9 July 2013

A prospective, randomised clinical evaluation of a new safety-orientated injectable drug administration system in comparison with conventional methods

scientific article published in January 2004

A randomized comparison between records made with an anesthesia information management system and by hand, and evaluation of the Hawthorne effect

scientific article published on 9 August 2013

A simulation design for research evaluating safety innovations in anaesthesia*.

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A surgical safety checklist to reduce morbidity and mortality in a global population

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Acute alcohol intoxication and bispectral index monitoring.

scientific article published on 4 June 2015

Advancing patient safety through the use of cognitive aids

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An iterative process of global quality improvement: the International Standards for a Safe Practice of Anesthesia 2010.

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An overview of quality and safety in health care

scientific article published on December 12, 2012

Anaesthetic drug administration as a potential contributor to healthcare-associated infections: a prospective simulation-based evaluation of aseptic techniques in the administration of anaesthetic drugs

scientific article published on 16 June 2012

Anaesthetists' management of oxygen pipeline failure: room for improvement.

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Aspiration during anaesthesia in the first 4000 incidents reported to webAIRS

scientific article published on 22 August 2019

Assessing the similarity of mental models of operating room team members and implications for patient safety: a prospective, replicated study

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Bivalirudin versus heparin and protamine in off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery

scientific article published in March 2004

Bivalirudin, blood loss, and graft patency in coronary artery bypass surgery

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British syringe label 'standards' are an accident waiting to happen

scientific article published in June 2000

Building the evidence on simulation validity: comparison of anesthesiologists' communication patterns in real and simulated cases

scientific article published in January 2014

Cardiac surgery: all for one and one for all.

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Cerebral ischemic lesions on diffusion-weighted imaging are associated with neurocognitive decline after cardiac surgery

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Cerebral protection by lidocaine during cardiac operations: a follow-up study

scientific article published in March 2009

Changes in safety attitude and relationship to decreased postoperative morbidity and mortality following implementation of a checklist-based surgical safety intervention

scientific article published on January 1, 2011

Chronic extra-aortic balloon counterpulsation: First-in-human pilot study in end-stage heart failure

scientific article published on 01 December 2010

Clevidipine compared with nitroglycerin for blood pressure control in coronary artery bypass grafting: a randomized double-blind study

scientific article published on 4 April 2014

Clinical assessment of a new anaesthetic drug administration system: a prospective, controlled, longitudinal incident monitoring study

scientific article published on 19 March 2010

Clinical tolerability of perioperative tenoxicam in 1001 patients--a prospective, controlled, double-blind, multi-centre study

scientific article published in October 2004

Colour coding, drug administration error and the systems approach to safety

scientific article published on 23 October 2006

Combining paracetamol (acetaminophen) with nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs: a qualitative systematic review of analgesic efficacy for acute postoperative pain

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Crises in clinical care: an approach to management

scientific article published on June 2005

Curtailing the cost of anesthetic drugs: prudent economics or an infringement of clinical autonomy?

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Data sharing for pharmacokinetic studies

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Doctors' willingness to give honest answers about end-of-life practices: a cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 28 May 2013

Does manual anaesthetic record capture remove clinically important data?

scientific article published on June 10, 2011

Educating for healthcare quality improvement in an interprofessional learning environment: A New Zealand initiative

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Education in airway management

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Ethics, industry, and outcomes

scientific article published on March 2008

Evaluation in an anaesthetic simulator of a prototype of a new drug administration system designed to reduce error

scientific article published in March 2002

Evaluation of an infrared camera and X-ray system using implanted fiducials in patients with lung tumors for gated radiation therapy

scientific article published on 2 August 2006

Evidence-based strategies for preventing drug administration errors during anaesthesia.

scientific article published on May 2004

Extending the WHO 'Safe Surgery Saves Lives' project through Global Oximetry

scientific article published in October 2009

Extra-aortic balloon counterpulsation: an intraoperative feasibility study

scientific article published in August 2005

FIRST-TIME CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFTING: THE ANAESTHETIST AS A RISK FACTOR

scientific article published on 01 January 1992

Focus on thrombin: alternative anticoagulants

scientific article published on December 2007

Global PRoMiSe (Perioperative Recommendations for Medication Safety): protocol for a mixed-methods study

scientific article published on 30 June 2020

Global health and anaesthesia: An exciting time

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Global operating theatre distribution and pulse oximetry supply: an estimation from reported data

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Hard lessons for pain researchers

scientific article published on 1 May 2010

Has anesthesia care become safer and is anesthesia-related mortality decreasing?

scientific article published on 14 September 2009

How does the law recognize and deal with medical errors?

I. Best practice and patient safety in anaesthesia

scientific article published in May 2013

Implementation of the World Health Organization surgical safety checklist, including introduction of pulse oximetry, in a resource-limited setting

scientific article published on April 2013

Improving patients' safety by gathering information. Anonymous reporting has an important role

scientific article published on August 2001

Improving the quality and safety of patient care in cardiac anesthesia

scientific article published on October 2014

Incident reporting at the local and national level

scientific article published on January 2014

Interdisciplinary team interactions: a qualitative study of perceptions of team function in simulated anaesthesia crises

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International Standards for a Safe Practice of Anesthesia 2010.

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Intraprostatic fiducials for localization of the prostate gland: monitoring intermarker distances during radiation therapy to test for marker stability

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Invited commentary

Is directed donation misguided?

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Labelling and drug administration error

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Measuring the Repeatability of Simulated Physiology in Simulators

scientific article published on 2 September 2015

Medication errors--new approaches to prevention

scientific article published on 25 April 2011

Medication errors: time for a national audit?

scientific article published in November 2011

Microbiological Contamination of Drugs during Their Administration for Anesthesia in the Operating Room

scientific article published on 4 February 2016

Mini-clinical evaluation exercise in anaesthesia training

scientific article published on 31 March 2009

Multimodal system designed to reduce errors in recording and administration of drugs in anaesthesia: prospective randomised clinical evaluation

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Paperless anesthesia: uses and abuses of these data

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Patient safety and the Triple Aim.

scientific article published in October 2017

Patient safety in an interprofessional learning environment

scientific article published in May 2005

Postoperative ischemia and cognitive impairment in cardiac surgery patients

scientific article published in February 2009

Posture and the spread of extradural analgesia in labour

scientific article published in April 1983

Practice patterns and perceptions of Australian and New Zealand anaesthetists towards perioperative oxygen therapy

scientific article published on 24 May 2019

Prospective, controlled, double-blind study of i.v. tenoxicam for analgesia after thoracotomy

scientific article published in July 1992

Pulling the plug on ad hoc critical incident training

scientific article published on 01 August 2009

Randomized comparison between the combination of acetaminophen and ibuprofen and each constituent alone for analgesia following tonsillectomy in children

scientific article published on 23 October 2013

Refining Target-Controlled Infusion: An Assessment of Pharmacodynamic Target-Controlled Infusion of Propofol and Remifentanil Using a Response Surface Model of Their Combined Effects on Bispectral Index

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Response to: Improving the Quality and Safety as Well as Reducing the Cost for Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery: Missing Some Issues?

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Role of Anesthesiologists in WHO Safe Surgery Programs

scientific article published on 01 January 2010

Safety in anaesthesia: reporting incidents and learning from them

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Safety in medical simulation–overlooked or underappreciated?

scientific article published on 01 September 2011

Serial megavoltage CT imaging during external beam radiotherapy for non-small-cell lung cancer: observations on tumor regression during treatment

scientific article published on 11 July 2005

Simulators for use in anaesthesia.

scientific article published on February 2007

Sleep loss and performance of anaesthesia trainees and specialists

scientific article published in November 2008

Standards for simulation

scientific article published in December 2008

Sustainability and long-term effectiveness of the WHO surgical safety checklist combined with pulse oximetry in a resource-limited setting: two-year update from Moldova

scientific article published on May 2015

TADAA: Towards Automated Detection of Anaesthetic Activity

scientific article published on 23 August 2011

The Bare Minimum Requires Caution

scientific article published on 19 October 2015

The WFSA and patient safety in the perioperative setting

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

The World Health Organization and anaesthesia.

scientific article published on December 2007

The contribution of labelling to safe medication administration in anaesthetic practice

scientific article published on June 2011

The effect of implementing an aseptic practice bundle for anaesthetists to reduce postoperative infections, the Anaesthetists Be Cleaner (ABC) study: protocol for a stepped wedge, cluster randomised, multi-site trial

scientific article published on 10 June 2019

The effect of time of day on the duration of neuromuscular blockade elicited by rocuronium.

scientific article published in November 2007

The effects of the general anaesthetic isoflurane on the honey bee (Apis mellifera) circadian clock

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The incidence of hypoxemia during surgery: evidence from two institutions

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The influence of various graphical and numeric trend display formats on the detection of simulated changes.

scientific article published in November 2009

The right membrane for the job

Touch contamination levels during anaesthetic procedures and their relationship to hand hygiene procedures: a clinical audit

scientific article published in August 2001

Treatment Principles for the Use of Opioids in Pain of Nonmalignant Origin

scientific article published on August 1, 1991

Two open access, high-quality datasets from anesthetic records

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Use of a new task-relevant test to assess the effects of shift work and drug labelling formats on anesthesia trainees' drug recognition and confirmation

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Variables of patient-controlled analgesia

scientific article published in September 1991

When Are Errors a Crime?—Lessons from New Zealand

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