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REVIEW

Interventions to improve team effectiveness: a systematic review.

Buljac-Samardzic M, Dekker-van Doorn CM, van Wijngaarden JDH, van Wijk KP. Health Policy. 2010;94:183-195.

STUDY

Improving safety culture on adult medical units through multidisciplinary teamwork and communication interventions: the TOPS Project.

Blegen MA, Sehgal NL, Alldredge BK, Gearhart S, Auerbach AD, Wachter RM. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010;19:346-350.

REVIEW

Outcomes of classroom-based team training interventions for multiprofessional hospital staff. A systematic review.

Rabøl LI, Østergaard D, Mogensen T. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010;19:e27.

COMMENTARY

In Conversation with…Jack Barker, PhD

AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. January 2006.

COMMENTARY

Improving patient safety: patient-focused, high-reliability team training.

McKeon LM, Cunningham PD, Detty Oswaks JS. J Nurs Care Qual. 2009;24:76-82.

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.

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.

STUDY

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.

SPECIAL OR THEME ISSUE

Teamwork and Communication.

Pa Patient Saf Advis. June 2010;7(suppl 2):1-16.

COMMENTARY

Video technology to advance safety in the operating room and perioperative environment.

Xiao Y, Schimpff S, Mackenzie C, et al. Surg Innov. 2007;14:52-61.

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

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.

COMMENTARY classic

Shaping systems for better behavioral choices: lessons learned from a fatal medication error.

Smetzer J, Baker C, Byrne FD, Cohen MR. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2010;36:152-163, 1AP-2AP.

STUDY

A multidisciplinary teamwork training program: The Triad for Optimal Patient Safety (TOPS) experience.

Sehgal NL, Fox M, Vidyarthi AR, et al; TOPS Project. J Gen Intern Med. 2008;23:2053-2057.

BOOK/REPORT

Medical Team Training.

Oakbrook, IL: Joint Commission Resources; 2008. ISBN: 9781599400921.

COMMENTARY

Intubation Mishap.

Weinger MB, Blike GT. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. September 2003.

REVIEW

Teamwork in obstetric critical care.

Guise JM, Segel S. Best Pract Res Clin Obstet Gynaecol. 2008;22:937-951.

COMMENTARY

A Mid-Summer Fog

Braddock CH. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. November 2008.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Practicing on patients, real and otherwise.

Chen PW. New York Times. January 28, 2010.

STUDY

Medical team training: applying crew resource management in the Veterans Health Administration.

Dunn EJ, Mills PD, Neily J, Crittenden MD, Carmack AL, Bagian JP. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2007;33:317-325.

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