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STUDY

Does teamwork improve performance in the operating room? A multilevel evaluation.

Weaver SJ, Rosen MA, DiazGranados D, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2010;36:133-142.

REVIEW

Enhancing communication in surgery through team training interventions: a systematic literature review.

Gillespie BM, Chaboyer W, Murray P. AORN J. 2010;92:642-657.

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.

STUDY

The efficacy of medical team training: improved team performance and decreased operating room delays: a detailed analysis of 4863 cases.

Wolf FA, Way LW, Stewart L. Ann Surg. 2010;252:477-485.

STUDY

A novel method for reproducibly measuring the effects of interventions to improve emotional climate, indices of team skills and communication, and threat to patient outcome in a high-volume thoracic surgery center.

Nurok M, Lipsitz S, Satwicz P, Kelly A, Frankel A. Arch Surg. 2010;145:489-495.

COMMENTARY

Surgical team training: promoting high reliability with nontechnical skills.

Paige JT. Surg Clin North Am. 2010;90:569-581.

STUDY

Attitudinal changes resulting from repetitive training of operating room personnel using high-fidelity simulation at the point of care.

Paige JT, Kozmenko V, Yang T, et al. Am Surg. 2009;75:584-591.

COMMENTARY

The normalization of deviance: what are the perioperative risks?

McNamara SA. AORN J. 2011;93:796-801.

STUDY

Communication failure in the operating room.

Halverson AL, Casey JT, Andersson J, et al. Surgery. 2011;49:305-310.

STUDY

Medical team training and coaching in the veterans health administration; assessment and impact on the first 32 facilities in the programme.

Neily J, Mills PD, Lee P, et al. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010;19:360-364.

STUDY

The effects of aviation-style non-technical skills training on technical performance and outcome in the operating theatre.

McCulloch P, Mishra A, Handa A, Dale T, Hirst G, Catchpole K. Qual Saf Health Care. 2009;18:109-115.

STUDY

Surgical team training: the Northwestern Memorial Hospital experience.

Halverson AL, Andersson JL, Anderson K, et al. Arch Surg. 2009;144:107-112.

STUDY

Can aviation-based team training elicit sustainable behavioral change?

Sax HC, Browne P, Mayewski RJ, et al. Arch Surg. 2009;144:1133-1137.

STUDY

High-fidelity, simulation-based, interdisciplinary operating room team training at the point of care.

Paige JT, Kozmenko V, Yang T, et al. Surgery. 2009;145:138-146.

STUDY

Communication practices on 4 Harvard surgical services: a surgical safety collaborative.

ElBardissi AW, Regenbogen SE, Greenberg CC, et al. Ann Surg. 2009;250:861-865.

STUDY

Using simulation training to improve perioperative patient safety.

Mullen L, Byrd D. AORN J. 2013;97:419-427.

STUDY

A multidisciplinary team approach to retained foreign objects.

Cima RR, Kollengode A, Storsveen AS, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2009;35:123-132.

COMMENTARY

Communication in the perioperative setting.

Cvetic E. AORN J. 2011;94:261-270.

STUDY

From the flight deck to the operating room: an initial pilot study of the feasibility and potential impact of true interdisciplinary team training using high-fidelity simulation.

Paige J, Kozmenko V, Morgan B, et al. J Surg Educ. 2007;64:369-377.

STUDY

Causes of near misses: perceptions of perioperative nurses.

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

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