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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

Incorrect surgical procedures within and outside of the operating room.

Neily J, Mills PD, Eldridge N, et al. Arch Surg. 2009;144:1028-1034.

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

Surgical team training: promoting high reliability with nontechnical skills.

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

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.

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Surgical team training: the Northwestern Memorial Hospital experience.

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

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Communication failure in the operating room.

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

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.

COMMENTARY

Inadvertent Castration.

Calland JF. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. January 2004.

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.

STUDY

Effect of a comprehensive surgical safety system on patient outcomes.

de Vries EN, Prins HA, Crolla RM, et al; SURPASS Collaborative Group. N Engl J Med. 2010;363:1928-1937.

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Association between implementation of a medical team training program and surgical mortality.

Neily J, Mills PD, Young-Xu Y, et al. JAMA. 2010;304:1693-1700.

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Crew resource management improved perception of patient safety in the operating room.

Gore DC, Powell JM, Baer JG, et al. Am J Med Qual. 2010;25:60-63.

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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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.

STUDY

Incorrect surgical procedures within and outside of the operating room: a follow-up report.

Neily J, Mills PD, Eldridge N, et al. Arch Surg. 2011;146 1235-1239.

STUDY

Can aviation-based team training elicit sustainable behavioral change?

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

COMMENTARY

Comparative issues in aviation and surgical crew resource management: (1) are we too solution focused?

Hunt GJF, Callaghan KSN. ANZ J Surg. 2008;78:690-693.

COMMENTARY classic

Case 34-2010: a 65-year-old woman with an incorrect operation on the left hand.

Ring DC, Herndon JH, Meyer GS. N Engl J Med. 2010;363:1950-1957.

STUDY

Getting teams to talk: development and pilot implementation of a checklist to promote interprofessional communication in the OR.

Lingard L, Espin S, Rubin B, et al. Qual Saf Health Care. 2005;14:340-346.

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