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 …

Safety in aviation has often been compared with safety in healthcare. Following a recent
article in this journal, the UK government set up an Independent Patient Safety Investigation …

As the nature of work becomes more complex, teams have become necessary to ensure
effective functioning within organizations. The healthcare industry is no exception. As such …

Objective: Debriefs (or “after-action reviews”) are increasingly used in training and work
environments as a means of learning from experience. We sought to unify a fragmented …

BACKGROUND: Failures in nontechnical and teamwork skills frequently lie at the heart of
harm and near-misses in the operating room (OR). The purpose of this systematic review …

Breakdowns in teamwork that lead to surgical flow or operative disruptions are exceedingly
common, having been noted at a rate of 17.4 per hour in one cardiac surgery study19 and at …

Objectives To define the target domains of culture-improvement interventions, to assess the
impact of these interventions on surgical culture and to determine whether culture …

Objectives Crew resource management (CRM) training formats have become a popular
method to increase patient safety by consideration of the role that human factors play in …

BACKGROUND: The NSQIP database enables measurement of postoperative outcomes
across a spectrum of practice settings. This allows for observations about potential effects of …

Objective To investigate the effect of coaching on non-technical skills and performance
during laparoscopic cholecystectomy in a simulated operating room (OR). Background Non …