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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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

STUDY

High performance teamwork training and systems redesign in outpatient oncology.

Bunnell CA, Gross AH, Weingart SN, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2013;22:405-413.

BOOK/REPORT

Achieving Strong Teamwork Practices in Hospital Labor and Delivery Units.

Farley DO, Sorbero ME, Lovejoy SL, Salisbury M. Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corporation; 2010. ISBN: 9780833050557.

STUDY

Communication and collaboration: it's about the pharmacists, as well as the physicians and nurses.

Holden LM, Watts DD, Walker PH. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010;19:169-172.

STUDY

Assessing and improving safety culture throughout an academic medical centre: a prospective cohort study.

Paine LA, Rosenstein BJ, Sexton JB, Kent P, Holzmueller CG, Pronovost PJ. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010;19:547-554.

STUDY

Code debriefing from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Team Training Program improves the cardiopulmonary resuscitation code process.

Percarpio KB, Harris FS, Hatfield BA, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2010;36:424-429:AP1.

STUDY

Didactic and simulation nontechnical skills team training to improve perinatal patient outcomes in a community hospital.

Riley W, Davis S, Miller K, Hansen H, Sainfort F, Sweet R. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2011;37:357-364.

STUDY

Content analysis of team communication in an obstetric emergency scenario.

Siassakos D, Draycott T, Montague I, Harris M. J Obstet Gynaecol. 2009;29:499-503.

STUDY

Interprofessional education in team communication: working together to improve patient safety.

Brock D, Abu-Rish E, Chiu CR, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2013;22:414-423.

STUDY

Team training in the neonatal resuscitation program for interns: teamwork and quality of resuscitations.

Thomas EJ, Williams AL, Reichman EF, Lasky RE, Crandell S, Taggart WR. Pediatrics. 2010;125:539-546.

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.

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