Interventions to improve team effectiveness within health care: a systematic review of the past decade

M Buljac-Samardzic, KD Doekhie… - Human resources for …, 2020 - Springer
Background A high variety of team interventions aims to improve team performance
outcomes. In 2008, we conducted a systematic review to provide an overview of the scientific …

Systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions for operating room to intensive care unit handoffs

J Abraham, A Meng, S Tripathy, MS Avidan… - BMJ Quality & …, 2021 - qualitysafety.bmj.com
Objective To conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis to ascertain the impact of
operating room (OR) to intensive care unit (ICU) handoff interventions on process-based …

Communication: is there a standard handover technique to transfer patient care?

E Methangkool, L Tollinche, J Sparling… - International …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Effective communication is integral to patient safety, especially during high-risk periods
where patients are transitioning to different care areas or to different providers. However …

Does standardisation improve post-operative anaesthesia handoffs? Meta-analyses on provider, patient, organisational, and handoff outcomes

EH Lazzara, RJ Simonson, LM Gisick, AC Griggs… - Ergonomics, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Anaesthesia handoffs are associated with negative outcomes (eg inappropriate treatments,
post-operative complications, and in-hospital mortality). To minimise these adverse …

Anaesthesia-specific checklists: a systematic review of impact

S Saxena, JW Krombach, DA Nahrwold… - Anaesthesia Critical Care …, 2020 - Elsevier
Checklists are recognised as powerful tools to prevent avoidable errors in high-reliability
organisations. In healthcare, the perioperative area has been a leading field in the …

An observational study of postoperative handoff standardization failures

J Abraham, A Meng, C Sona, T Wildes, M Avidan… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Patient handoffs from an operating room (OR) to an intensive care unit (ICU)
require precise coordination among surgical, anesthesia, and critical care teams. Although …

[PDF][PDF] Importance of high-performing teams in the cardiovascular intensive care unit

LR Kennedy-Metz, A Barbeito, RD Dias… - The Journal of thoracic …, 2022 - Elsevier
11 Conflict of interest statement: The authors confirm they have no conflicts of interest to
declare. 12 Funding: This work was supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood …

“Nobody told me”: communication issues affecting Australian cardiothoracic surgery patients

JCY Chan, AK Gupta, S Stewart, W Babidge… - The Annals of thoracic …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Failure of communication can have potentially severe results in cardiothoracic
surgery. Previous literature regarding patient safety highlighted communication as a …

[HTML][HTML] Improving transitions of care between the operating room and intensive care unit

DS Wheeler, AM Sheets, FC Ryckman - Translational Pediatrics, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Transitions of care between individual providers or teams of providers have a high potential
for errors due to the incomplete transfer of critical information and the need for ongoing care …

Ascertaining design requirements for postoperative care transition interventions

J Abraham, CR King, A Meng - Applied clinical informatics, 2021 - thieme-connect.com
Background Handoffs or care transitions from the operating room (OR) to intensive care unit
(ICU) are fragmented and vulnerable to communication errors. Although protocols and …