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STUDY

Development of a rating system for surgeons' non-technical skills.

Yule S, Flin R, Paterson-Brown S, Maran N, Rowley D. Med Educ. 2006;40:1098-1104.

BOOK/REPORT

Acting on Concerns: Your Professional Responsibility.

Shale S; The Royal College of Surgeons of England. London, UK: RCSENG Communications; 2013.

REVIEW

Surgical fires, a clear and present danger.

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

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

Multidisciplinary crisis simulations: the way forward for training surgical teams.

Undre S, Koutantji M, Sevdalis N, et al. World J Surg. 2007;31:1843-1853.

COMMENTARY

A common body of care: the ethics and politics of teamwork in the operating theater are inseparable.

Bleakley A. J Med Philos. 2006;31:305-322.

STUDY

Observational assessment of surgical teamwork: a feasibility study.

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

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.

REVIEW

The impact of nontechnical skills on technical performance in surgery: a systematic review.

Hull L, Arora S, Aggarwal R, Darzi A, Vincent C, Sevdalis N. J Am Coll Surg. 2012;214:214-230.

COMMENTARY

Defining the technical skills of teamwork in surgery.

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

STUDY

Use of failure mode and effects analysis for proactive identification of communication and handoff failures from organ procurement to transplantation.

Steinberger DM, Douglas SV, Kirschbaum MS. Prog Transplant. 2009;19:208-215.

COMMENTARY

Cutting out human error.

Feinmann J. BMJ. 2008;337:a2370.

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

A systematic proactive risk assessment of hazards in surgical wards: a quantitative study.

Anderson O, Brodie A, Vincent CA, Hanna GB. Ann Surg. 2012;255:1086-1092.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Tomorrow's operating room to harness Net, RFID.

Olsen S. CNET News.com; October 19, 2005.

STUDY

'Skating on thin ice?' Consultant surgeon's contemporary experience of adverse surgical events.

Skevington SM, Langdon JE, Giddins G. Psychol Health Med. 2012;17:1-16.

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.

REVIEW

Improving patient safety in the operating theatre and perioperative care: obstacles, interventions, and priorities for accelerating progress.

Sevdalis N, Hull L, Birnbach DJ. Br J Anaesth. 2012;109:i3-i16.

STUDY

Use of the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire as a measure in patient safety improvement.

Watts BV, Percarpio K, West P, Mills PD. J Patient Saf. 2010;6:206-209.

COMMENTARY

Unintended transplantation of three organs from an HIV-positive donor: report of the analysis of an adverse event in a regional health care service in Italy.

Bellandi T, Albolino S, Tartaglia R, Filipponi F. Transplant Proc. 2010;42:2187-2189.

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