Background Surgical errors result from faulty decision-making, misperceptions and the
application of suboptimal problem-solving strategies, just as often as they result from …

Objective Diminishing human error and improving patient outcomes is the goal of task
training and simulation experience. The fundamentals of laparoscopic surgery (FLS) is a …

Background High‐reliability organizations have stressed the importance of nontechnical
skills for safety and of regularly providing such training to their teams. Recently safety skills …

BACKGROUND: Education and training of health care professionals is necessary to achieve
sustainable improvements in patient safety. Despite its inherently risky nature, little training …

Background: Intraoperative surgical crisis management is learned in an unstructured
manner. In aviation, simulation training allows aircrews to coordinate and standardize …

Background: Analyses of adverse events in surgery reveal that underlying causes are often
behavioural, such as communication failures, rather than technical. Non-technical (ie …

Background Improvements in safety culture have been postulated as one of the mechanisms
underlying the association between the introduction of the World Health Organisation (WHO) …

Background Analyses of adverse events in surgery reveal that many underlying causes are
behavioural, such as communication failure, rather than technical. Non‐technical (ie …

Background Equipment-related malfunctions directly relate to one-fourth of the adverse
events in the surgical theater. A serious game trains residents to recognize and respond to …

It is increasingly being recognised that human factors can contribute to error in complex
safety systems. Healthcare, however, has a long way to go before the promotion of training …