Provide Feedback |

Register

Review

Team-based care: the changing face of cardiothoracic surgery.

October 11, 2017

Crawford TC, Conte J, Sanchez JA. Surg Clin North Am. 2017;97(4):801-810.

View more articles from the same authors.

Team strategies are key to improving complex care processes. This review focuses on cardiothoracic surgery and the need for team approaches to enhance the safety of care in this specialty. The authors suggest that nontechnical skill development for surgical team leaders and structured communication can improve team performance.

PubMed citation

Related Resources From the Same Author(s)

Patient safety in the cardiac operating room: human factors and teamwork: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association.

October 7, 2013

Safety culture in cardiac surgical teams: data from five programs and national surgical comparison.

January 22, 2016

Evaluation of clinical practice guidelines on fall prevention and management for older adults: a systematic review.

January 12, 2022

Prescription opioid dose reductions and potential adverse events: a multi-site observational cohort study in diverse US health systems.

November 29, 2023

Learning and mindfulness: improving perioperative patient safety.

April 19, 2017

Patient safety science in cardiothoracic surgery: an overview.

March 16, 2016

Investigating the causes of adverse events.

June 7, 2017

Prevalence of inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions among US ambulatory care visits, 2010–2011.

May 25, 2016

Improving ambulatory prescribing safety with a handheld decision support system: a randomized controlled trial.

September 7, 2011

Cumulative effect of flexible duty-hour policies on resident outcomes: long-term follow-up results from the FIRST trial.

July 15, 2020

View More

Related Resources

Independent Mortality Review of Cardiac Surgery at St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

April 15, 2020

Starting elective cardiac surgery after 3 pm does not impact patient morbidity, mortality, or hospital costs.

November 6, 2019

Computer-assisted process modeling to enhance intraoperative safety in cardiac surgery.

January 23, 2017

Patient safety in the cardiac operating room: human factors and teamwork: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association.

October 7, 2013

Cardiac surgical ICU care: eliminating "preventable" complications.

September 11, 2013

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.

July 5, 2013

Quality, patient safety, and the cardiac surgical team.

June 19, 2013

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

January 27, 2012

Disruptions in surgical flow and their relationship to surgical errors: an exploratory investigation.

January 6, 2012

ProvenCare: quality improvement model for designing highly reliable care in cardiac surgery.

October 28, 2009

View More

See More About The Topic

Health Care Providers

Facility and Group Administrators

Cardiothoracic Surgery

Surgical Complications

To sign up for updates or to access your subscriber preferences, please enter your email address below.

5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD 20857
Telephone: (301) 427-1364