Impact of a daily huddle on safety in perioperative services.
Team huddles are an effective way for healthcare teams to share information, proactively identify safety concerns, and increase accountability. This children's hospital implemented daily safety huddles in the operating room at the beginning of each day to reduce perioperative serious safety events (SSE). Following implementation, the perioperative service had no SSE for more than 900 days without delaying first-case start times.