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The French Connection: France's wildland fire service finds success through high-reliability concepts
Daved van Stralen, MD; Gary Provansal

Dynamic Resilience: High Reliability Organizing from the Ground Up
Daved van Stralen, MD

Differences in Safety Climate Between Hospital Personnel and Naval Aviators
David Gaba, MD; Sara Singer, MBA; Anna Sinaiko, BA; Jennie Bowen, BS; Anthony Ciavarelli, Ed.D

The Incident Command System
Gregory Bigley, Ph.D; Karlene Roberts, Ph.D

HRO
Daved van Stralen, MD

On error management: lessons from aviation
Robert Helmreich

Mitigating risks, visible hands, inevitable disasters, and soft variables: Management research that matters to managers
Eric Ford; W. Jack Duncan; Arthur Bedeian; Peter Ginter; Matthew Rousculp; Alice Adams

What Risk Managers Need to Know
Karlene Roberts, Ph.D
Presented at:
American Society for Healthcare Risk Management
October, 17-20, Orlando, Florida

HRO hypotheses
Karlene Roberts, Ph.D; Carolyn Libuser

Patient Safety is an Organizational Systems Issue: Lessons from a Variety of Industries
Karlene Roberts Ph.D; Daved van Stralen, MD; Kuo Yu
Prepared for B. Youngblood and M. Hatlie (Eds.)
Handbook on Patient Safety. Aspen Publications

Organizational Factors in Accident Risk Assessment
Anthony Ciavarelli, Ed.D; Jeffrey Crowson
Presented at:
Safety Across High-Consequence Industries Conference
March 9 & 10, 2004, St. Louis, MO

Managing the Unexpected
Karl Weick,Ph.D; Kathleen Sutcliffe
Presented at:
University of Michigan, Ross School of Business
February 28, 2005, Jacksonville, Florida

Are the Eyes Better Than the Gas? Use of a Five-Point Respiratory Exam
Daved van Stralen, MD
Presented at:
Making the Desert Bloom: Creating Excellence in LTC Medicine, AMDA’s 27th Annual Symposium
March 4-7, 2004, Phoenix, Arizona