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REVIEW

Human factors in surgery: from Three Mile Island to the operating room.

D'Addessi A, Bongiovanni L, Volpe A, Pinto F, Bassi P. Urol Int. 2009;83:249-257.

REVIEW

Surgical fires, a clear and present danger.

Yardley IE, Donaldson LJ. Surgeon. 2010;8:87-92.

STUDY

Operating room teamwork among physicians and nurses: teamwork in the eye of the beholder.

Makary MA, Sexton JB, Freischlag JA, et al. J Am Coll Surg. 2006;202:746-752.

STUDY

Discrepant perceptions of communication, teamwork and situation awareness among surgical team members.

Wauben LS, Dekker-van Doorn CM, van Wijngaarden JD, et al. Int J Qual Health Care. 2011;23:159-166.

STUDY

Use of briefings and debriefings as a tool in improving team work, efficiency, and communication in the operating theatre.

Bethune R, Sasirekha G, Sahu A, Cawthorn S, Pullyblank A. Postgrad Med J. 2011;87:331-334.

STUDY

Causes of near misses: perceptions of perioperative nurses.

Cohoon B. AORN J. 2011;93:551-565.

STUDY

The impact of organisational and individual factors on team communication in surgery: a qualitative study.

Gillespie BM, Chaboyer W, Longbottom P, Wallis M. Int J Nurs Stud. 2010;47:732-741.

REVIEW

Patient safety in surgery: non-technical aspects of safe surgical performance.

Youngson GG, Flin R. Patient Saf Surg. 2010;4:4.

STUDY

Teamwork in the operating room: frontline perspectives among hospitals and operating room personnel.

Sexton JB, Makary MA, Tersigni AR, et al. Anesthesiology. 2006;105:877-884.

STUDY

Attitudes to teamwork and safety in the operating theatre.

Flin R, Yule S, McKenzie L, Paterson-Brown S, Maran N. Surgeon. June 2006;4:145-151.

STUDY

Observational assessment of surgical teamwork: a feasibility study.

Undre S, Healey AN, Darzi A, Vincent CA. World J Surg. 2006;30:1774-1783.

REVIEW

Towards a model of surgeons' leadership in the operating room.

Henrickson Parker S, Yule S, Flin R, McKinley A. BMJ Qual Saf. 2011;20:570-579.

STUDY

Action research, simulation, team communication, and bringing the tacit into voice. Society for Simulation in Healthcare.

Forsythe L. Simul Healthc. 2009;4:143-148.

COMMENTARY

Defining the technical skills of teamwork in surgery.

Healey AN, Undre S, Vincent CA. Qual Saf Health Care. 2006;15:231-234.

STUDY

Changes in safety attitude and relationship to decreased postoperative morbidity and mortality following implementation of a checklist-based surgical safety intervention.

Haynes AB, Weiser TG, Berry WR, et al; Safe Surgery Saves Lives Study Group. BMJ Qual Saf. 2011;20:102-107.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Costly issues of an uncommunicative OR.

Neil R. Mat Manage Health Care. March 2006;15:30-33.

STUDY

The Oxford NOTECHS System: reliability and validity of a tool for measuring teamwork behaviour in the operating theatre.

Mishra A, Catchpole K, McCulloch P. Qual Saf Health Care. 2009;18:104-108.

STUDY

The influence of standardisation and task load on team coordination patterns during anaesthesia inductions.

Zala-Mezö E, Wacker J, Künzle B, Brüesch M, Grote G. Qual Saf Health Care. 2009;18:127-130.

STUDY

Teamwork and error in the operating room: analysis of skills and roles.

Catchpole K, Mishra A, Handa A, McCulloch P. Ann Surg. 2008;247:699-706.

STUDY

The relationship of the emotional climate of work and threat to patient outcome in a high-volume thoracic surgery operating room team.

Nurok M, Evans LA, Lipsitz S, Satwicz P, Kelly A, Frankel A. BMJ Qual Saf. 2011;20:237-242.

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