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Citations
14352
World Ranking
3504
National Ranking
204

Overview

G. Ross Baker is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and is active in research related to health professions and medicine. Their work primarily addresses areas in general health professions, emergency medical services, public health, environmental and occupational health, organizational behavior and human resource management, and health information management.

Their research covers several core topics including:

  • Primary Care and Health Outcomes
  • Interprofessional Education and Collaboration
  • Patient Safety and Medication Errors
  • Clinical Practice Guidelines Implementation
  • Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
  • Healthcare Quality and Management
  • Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues

Frequent publication venues for G. Ross Baker include the International Journal of Integrated Care and the Annals of Surgical Oncology, with notable contributions also appearing in Health Expectations, BMJ Quality & Safety, and BMC Health Services Research.

Their recent peer-reviewed papers include:

  • Applying the principles of adaptive leadership to person-centred care for people with complex care needs: Considerations for care providers, patients, caregivers and organizations (2020, Health Expectations)
  • Building High-Performing Primary Care Systems: After a Decade of Policy Change, Is Canada "Walking the Talk?" (2023, Milbank Quarterly)
  • Approaches to optimize patient and family engagement in hospital planning and improvement: Qualitative interviews (2021, Health Expectations)
  • Striving for high reliability in healthcare: a qualitative study of the implementation of a hospital safety programme (2022, BMJ Quality & Safety)
  • Interprofessional and multiprofessional approaches in quality improvement education (2020, Advances in Health Sciences Education)

Collaboration is a notable aspect of their research. Key frequent co-authors include Walter P. Wodchis, Lesley Moody, Kerseri Scane, Robin Urquhart, and Anna R. Gagliardi, each having contributed multiple joint publications with Baker.

Best Publications

  • The Canadian Adverse Events Study: the incidence of adverse events among hospital patients in Canada

    G. Ross Baker;Peter G. Norton;Virginia Flintoft;Régis Blais

  • Communication failures in the operating room: an observational classification of recurrent types and effects

    Lorelei Lingard;S. Espin;S. Whyte;G. Regehr

  • Engaging patients to improve quality of care: a systematic review

    Yvonne Bombard;Yvonne Bombard;G. Ross Baker;Elaina Orlando;Elaina Orlando;Carol Fancott

  • Evaluation of a preoperative checklist and team briefing among surgeons, nurses, and anesthesiologists to reduce failures in communication

    Lorelei Lingard;Glenn Regehr;Beverley Orser;Richard Reznick

  • Getting teams to talk: development and pilot implementation of a checklist to promote interprofessional communication in the OR

    Lorelei Lingard;S. Espin;B. Rubin;S. Whyte

  • Progressive independence in clinical training: a tradition worth defending?

    Tara J T Kennedy;Glenn Regehr;G Ross Baker;Lorelei A Lingard

  • A conceptual framework for the analysis of health care organizations' performance.

    C. Sicotte;F. Champagne;A. P. Contandriopoulos;J. Barnsley

  • Quantification of the Hawthorne effect in hand hygiene compliance monitoring using an electronic monitoring system: a retrospective cohort study

    Jocelyn A Srigley;Colin D Furness;G Ross Baker;Michael Gardam

  • Clinical Oversight: Conceptualizing the Relationship Between Supervision and Safety

    Tara J T Kennedy;Tara J T Kennedy;Lorelei Lingard;Lorelei Lingard;G. Ross Baker;Lisa Kitchen

  • Point-of-care assessment of medical trainee competence for independent clinical work.

    Tara J. T. Kennedy;Glenn Regehr;G Ross Baker;Lorelei Lingard

  • Preserving professional credibility: grounded theory study of medical trainees’ requests for clinical support

    Tara J T Kennedy;Glenn Regehr;G Ross Baker;Lorelei Lingard

  • Effectiveness of an Adapted SBAR Communication Tool for a Rehabilitation Setting.

    Karima Velji;G. Ross Baker;Carol Fancott;Angie Andreoli

  • Silence, Power and Communication in the Operating Room

    Fauzia Gardezi;Lorelei Lingard;Sherry Espin;Sarah Whyte

  • 'It's a cultural expectation...' The pressure on medical trainees to work independently in clinical practice.

    Tara J T Kennedy;Glenn Regehr;Glenn Regehr;G Ross Baker;Lorelei A Lingard;Lorelei A Lingard

  • Role of Champions in the Implementation of Patient Safety Practice Change

    Stephanie Soo;Whitney Berta;G. Ross Baker

  • Towards safer interprofessional communication: constructing a model of "utility" from preoperative team briefings.

    Lorelei Lingard;Sarah Whyte;Sherry Espin;G. Ross Baker

  • Nurse staffing models as predictors of patient outcomes.

    Linda McGillis Hall;Diane Doran;G. Ross Baker;George H. Pink

  • A Balanced Scorecard for Canadian Hospitals

    G. Ross Baker;George H. Pink

  • Patient engagement in hospital health service planning and improvement: a scoping review.

    Laurel Liang;Albina Cako;Robin Urquhart;Sharon E Straus

  • Persistence of unsafe practice in everyday work: an exploration of organizational and psychological factors constraining safety in the operating room

    S. Espin;Lorelei Lingard;G. R. Baker;G. Regehr

  • Error or "Act of God"? A Study of Patients' and Operating Room Team Members' Perceptions of Error Definition, Reporting, and Disclosure

    Sherry Espin;Wendy Levinson;Glenn Regehr;G. Ross Baker

Frequent Co-Authors

Lorelei Lingard
Lorelei Lingard University of Western Ontario
Glenn Regehr
Glenn Regehr University of British Columbia
Beverley A. Orser
Beverley A. Orser University of Toronto
Ayelet Kuper
Ayelet Kuper University of Toronto
Patricia O'Campo
Patricia O'Campo University of Toronto
François Champagne
François Champagne University of Montreal
Raisa B. Deber
Raisa B. Deber University of Toronto
Rhona Flin
Rhona Flin Robert Gordon University
William B. Weeks
William B. Weeks Microsoft (United States)
Sharon E. Straus
Sharon E. Straus University of Toronto

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