Healthcare today is the prerogative of teams rather than of individuals. In acute care
domains such as anaesthesia, intensive care, and emergency medicine, the work is …

Aims/Background: This review examines current research on teamwork in highly dynamic
domains of healthcare such as operating rooms, intensive care, emergency medicine, or …

Background The ability of medical teams to develop and maintain team situation awareness
(team SA) is crucial for patient safety. Limited research has investigated team SA within …

A narrative review was carried out to identify articles on monitoring of teamwork, with
particular relevance to anaesthetists. The papers reviewed showed that team monitoring …

Objectives We placed anaesthesia teams into a stressful environment in order to explore
interactions between members of different professional groups and to investigate their …

Health care requires the effort of a team, and nowhere is this more evident than in the care of
the surgical patient. No single clinician can perform all aspects of the continuum of surgical …

Team training has become a tradition in healthcare, where it has helped produce
significantly positive results in patient safety. It is widely acknowledged that medical …

Background When working in complex environments with critically ill patients, team
performance is influenced by situation awareness in teams. Moreover, improved situation …

Theory: Individuals have different qualities, levels of willingness, and degrees of
engagement for working in teams. This behaviour is termed 'Collective Orientation'(CO) …

The seminal report, To Err is Human, advocated teamwork training as a means for protecting
against what seemed to be a pervasive communication problem in care delivery systems. At …