Nontechnical skills in pediatric surgery: factors influencing operative performance.

George G Youngson

Commentary

Nontechnical skills in pediatric surgery: factors influencing operative performance.

April 13, 2016

Youngson GG. J Pediatr Surg. 2016;51(2):226-30.

View more articles from the same authors.

Nontechnical skills are gaining interest as a way to enhance surgical team performance. This commentary describes a model for identifying, training, and assessing surgeon competencies in a defined set of nontechnical skills during pediatric surgery.

PubMed citation

Available at

Related Resources From the Same Author(s)

Patient safety in surgery: non-technical aspects of safe surgical performance.

April 7, 2010

Surgeons' non-technical skills in the operating room: reliability testing of the NOTSS behavior rating system.

March 5, 2008

Adverse events in patients with return emergency department visits.

January 14, 2015

Medical morbidity and mortality conferences: past, present and future.

December 21, 2016

The patient's right to safety—improving the quality of care through litigation against hospitals.

May 17, 2006

Interdisciplinary communication: an uncharted source of medical error?

November 15, 2006

Interruptive communication patterns in the intensive care unit ward round.

October 26, 2005

What's that sound? Managing alarm fatigue.

September 24, 2014

Diagnostic errors with inserted tubes, lines and catheters in children.

December 5, 2012

Diagnostic errors in interpretation of pediatric musculoskeletal radiographs at common injury sites.

June 25, 2014

Preventing patient harms through systems of care.

August 22, 2012

Innovative teaching in situational awareness.

June 24, 2015

Pediatric aspects of inpatient health information technology systems.

February 4, 2009

Health care safety: what needs to be done?

December 7, 2005

The rise of the medical scribe industry: implications for the advancement of electronic health records.

April 15, 2015

Intralipid medication errors in the neonatal intensive care unit.

February 14, 2007

The role of personal health information management in promoting patient safety in the home: a qualitative analysis

October 2, 2019

COVID-19: peer support and crisis communication strategies to promote institutional resilience.

April 22, 2020

Usability testing of a mobile app to report medication errors anonymously: mixed-methods approach.

January 16, 2019

How can we keep patients with dementia safe in our acute hospitals? A review of challenges and solutions.

July 10, 2013

From heroism to safe design: leveraging technology.

February 12, 2014

Adverse event and complication tracking in anaesthesiology: dependence on self-reporting despite implementation of electronic health records.

March 16, 2022

Minimizing electronic health record patient–note mismatches.

May 18, 2011

A work observation study of nuclear medicine technologists: interruptions, resilience and implications for patient safety.

November 23, 2016

Trainee autonomy and patient safety.

December 6, 2017

The evolution of procedural competency in internal medicine training.

November 1, 2017

Intraoperative patient information handover between anesthesia providers.

November 5, 2014

Improvements in the safety of patient care can help end the medical malpractice crisis in the United States.

January 9, 2008

Current and emerging infectious risks of blood transfusions.

March 27, 2005

Data quality associated with handwritten laboratory test requests: classification and frequency of data-entry errors for outpatient serology tests.

November 18, 2015

Surgical adverse events: a systematic review.

June 26, 2013

Automatic detection of omissions in medication lists.

August 24, 2011

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

May 2, 2012

Relationships between pediatric safety indicators across a national sample of pediatric hospitals: dispelling the myth of the "safest" hospital.

June 22, 2022

The perception of patient safety in an alternate site of care for elective surgery during the first wave of the novel coronavirus pandemic in the United Kingdom: a survey of 158 patients.

March 24, 2021

Pediatric radiology malpractice claims—characteristics and comparison to adult radiology claims.

July 12, 2017

Therapeutic errors among children in the community setting: nature, causes and outcomes.

April 22, 2009

Therapeutic errors involving adults in the community setting: nature, causes and outcomes.

September 9, 2009

Introduction of medical emergency teams in Australia and New Zealand: a multi-centre study.

May 7, 2008

CT for suspected appendicitis in children: an analysis of diagnostic errors.

March 1, 2006

Three missed critical nursing care processes on labor and delivery units during the COVID-19 pandemic.

May 31, 2023

Implementation science for ambulatory care safety: a novel method to develop context-sensitive interventions to reduce quality gaps in monitoring high-risk patients.

July 12, 2017

The Human Factors Analysis Classification System (HFACS) applied to health care.

August 7, 2013

Opioid-Induced Ventilatory Impairment (OIVI): Time for Change in the Monitoring Strategy for Postoperative PCA Patients.

March 19, 2014

Implementing a national program to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infection: a quality improvement collaboration of state hospital associations, academic medical centers, professional societies, and governmental agencies.

December 18, 2013

Diagnostic errors in pediatric radiology.

March 30, 2011

A method for measuring system safety and latent errors associated with pediatric procedural sedation.

July 27, 2005

Crisis management for surgical teams and their leaders, lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic; a structured approach to developing resilience or natural organisational responses.

September 15, 2021

Decoding laboratory test names: a major challenge to appropriate patient care.

January 16, 2013

The perceptions of nurses towards barriers to the safe administration of medicines in mental health settings.

February 3, 2016

Retrospective review of emergency response activations during a 13-year period at a tertiary care children's hospital.

December 22, 2010

The uptake of technologies designed to influence medication safety in Canadian hospitals.

February 20, 2008

Concept and development of a discharge alert filter for abnormal laboratory values coupled with computerized provider order entry: a tool for quality improvement and hospital risk management.

June 13, 2012

Michigan Health & Hospital Association Keystone Obstetrics: a statewide collaborative for perinatal patient safety in Michigan.

January 30, 2005

The effectiveness of inking needle core prostate biopsies for preventing patient specimen identification errors: a technique to address Joint Commission patient safety goals in specialty laboratories.

February 25, 2009

Information needs in operating room teams: what is right, what is wrong, and what is needed?

January 12, 2011

Rating medical emergency teamwork performance: development of the Team Emergency Assessment Measure (TEAM).

April 28, 2010

Staff attitudes about event reporting and patient safety culture in hospital transfusion services.

June 11, 2008

Improving resident and fellow engagement in patient safety through a graduate medical education incentive program.

January 23, 2019

Rapid response systems: a prospective study of response times.

August 17, 2011

Can patient safety incident reports be used to compare hospital safety? Results from a quantitative analysis of the English National Reporting and Learning System data.

January 6, 2016

Association of anesthesiologist staffing ratio with surgical patient morbidity and mortality.

August 3, 2022

Randomized controlled trial of a pictogram-based intervention to reduce liquid medication dosing errors and improve adherence among caregivers of young children.

September 10, 2008

Decreasing errors in pediatric continuous intravenous infusions.

May 24, 2006

Policy and the future of adverse event detection using information technology.

March 6, 2005

A systematic review to identify the factors that affect failure to rescue and escalation of care in surgery.

May 20, 2015

Mapping the resilience performance of community pharmacy to maintain patient safety during the Covid-19 pandemic.

February 16, 2022

Disclosure of medical errors: what factors influence how patients respond?

June 21, 2006

Improving oversight of the graduate medical education enterprise: one institution's strategies and tools.

May 10, 2006

Patient safety in the office-based setting.

April 19, 2006

Patient safety incidents in hospice care: observations from interdisciplinary case conferences.

November 20, 2013

Improving surgical complications and patient safety at the nation's largest military hospital: an analysis of National Surgical Quality Improvement Program data.

March 29, 2017

Identifying violation-provoking conditions in a healthcare setting.

December 17, 2008

Just what the doctor ordered: missed ordering of venous thromboembolism chemoprophylaxis is associated with increased VTE events in high-risk general surgery patients.

August 30, 2023

In the eye of the storm: the role of the pharmacist in medication safety during the COVID-19 pandemic at an urban teaching hospital.

December 23, 2020

Exploring the association between organizational culture and large-scale adverse events: evidence from the Veterans Health Administration.

April 22, 2020

Narrative feedback from OR personnel about the safety of their surgical practice before and after a surgical safety checklist intervention.

July 12, 2017

Use of an appreciative inquiry approach to improve resident sign-out in an era of multiple shift changes.

January 25, 2012

Impact of incorporating pharmacy claims data into electronic medication reconciliation.

March 4, 2015

The incidence and nature of adverse events during pediatric sedation/anesthesia with propofol for procedures outside the operating room: a report from the Pediatric Sedation Research Consortium.

March 18, 2009

Patient safety rounds in a pediatric tertiary care center.

January 9, 2008

Error reduction in pediatric chemotherapy: computerized order entry and failure modes and effects analysis.

May 10, 2006

Implementation of an integrated computerized prescriber order-entry system for chemotherapy in a multisite safety-net health system.

April 25, 2018

Intercepting wrong-patient orders in a computerized provider order entry system.

February 4, 2015

The impact of major intraoperative adverse events on hospital readmissions.

August 17, 2016

Operating at night does not increase the risk of intraoperative adverse events.

January 24, 2018

Clinical outcomes associated with medication regimen complexity in older people: a systematic review.

June 28, 2017

Health plan members' views about disclosure of medical errors.

March 6, 2005

Building a culture of safety in ophthalmology.

November 2, 2016

Allocation of physician time in ambulatory practice: a time and motion study in four specialties.

September 7, 2016

Identifying and categorising patient safety hazards in cardiovascular operating rooms using an interdisciplinary approach: a multisite study.

May 23, 2012

Patient engagement in the inpatient setting: a systematic review.

December 18, 2013

ReCASTing the RCA: an improved model for performing root cause analyses.

May 26, 2010

Perioperative safety determinants in ethnic patient groups.

April 5, 2023

Redeployment of health care workers in the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study of health system leaders' strategies.

May 19, 2021

The safety of warfarin therapy in the nursing home setting.

June 13, 2007

Controlled interventions to reduce burnout in physicians: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

December 21, 2016

The effects of stress and coping on surgical performance during simulations.

January 13, 2010

Incidence and nature of adverse events during pediatric sedation/anesthesia for procedures outside the operating room: report from the Pediatric Sedation Research Consortium.

October 18, 2006

How hospitals select their patient safety priorities: an exploratory study of four Veterans Health Administration hospitals.

September 25, 2019

Related Resources

WebM&M Cases

Intraosseous Line Extravasation in a Pediatric Trauma Patient

April 27, 2022

WebM&M Cases

The Hidden Danger of Unseen Intravenous Catheters

October 27, 2021

Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Special Statement: Surgical safety checklists for cesarean delivery.

September 22, 2021

Opioid prescribing to US children and young adults in 2019.

September 1, 2021

Using performance improvement to enhance time-out compliance and prevent wrong-site surgery.

August 11, 2021

Outcomes from Wake Up Safe, the pediatric anesthesia quality improvement initiative.

February 3, 2021

Association between surgeon technical skills and patient outcomes.

September 9, 2020

Race, postoperative complications, and death in apparently healthy children.

August 12, 2020

What causes prescribing errors in children? Scoping review.

August 28, 2019

Analysis of human performance deficiencies associated with surgical adverse events.

August 14, 2019

The rise of human factors: optimising performance of individuals and teams to improve patients' outcomes.

July 10, 2019

What has an Airbus A380 captain got to do with OMFS? Lessons from aviation to improve patient safety.

June 12, 2019

Surgical Innovation, New Techniques and Technologies: A Guide to Good Practice.

May 29, 2019

Reducing surgical mortality in Scotland by use of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist.

May 8, 2019

Learning From Invited Reviews.

April 10, 2019

Surgical safety checklists in children's surgery: surgeons' attitudes and review of the literature.

February 6, 2019

Frequency of medication error in pediatric anesthesia: a systematic review and meta-analytic estimate.

December 5, 2018

Simulation-based clinical rehearsals as a method for improving patient safety.

October 31, 2018

Quality, Value, and Patient Safety in Orthopedic Surgery.

October 24, 2018

Partnering with pediatric patients and families in high reliability to identify and reduce preventable safety events.

September 26, 2018

Safety stop: a valuable addition to the pediatric universal protocol.

September 5, 2018

Are we missing the near misses in the OR? Underreporting of safety incidents in pediatric surgery.

April 11, 2018

Safety considerations in learning new procedures: a survey of surgeons.

January 31, 2018

Persistent opioid use among pediatric patients after surgery.

December 20, 2017

Trainee autonomy and patient safety.

December 6, 2017

Enhancing pediatric perioperative patient safety.

November 29, 2017

Safer paediatric surgical teams: a 5-year evaluation of crew resource management implementation and outcomes.

November 8, 2017

Reporting of perioperative adverse events by pediatric anesthesiologists at a tertiary children's hospital: targeted interventions to increase the rate of reporting.

October 11, 2017

Improving the Working Environment for Safe Surgical Care.

August 23, 2017

Microanalysis of video from the operating room: an underused approach to patient safety research.

June 28, 2017

See More About The Topic

Operating Room

Health Care Executives and Administrators

Educators

Pediatrics

Surgery

Nontechnical skills in pediatric surgery: factors influencing operative performance.

Connect With Us

Sign up for Email Updates

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Nontechnical skills in pediatric surgery: factors influencing operative performance.

Connect With Us

Sign up for Email Updates

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

PSNet Log in

Submit Your Innovations

Continue as a Guest

Continue Logged In

Submit Your Innovations

Continue as a Guest

Continue logged in

New Users to the PSNet site