Background Previous research suggests that the World Health Organization Surgical Safety
Checklist time-out reduces communication failures and medical complications and supports …

Despite good quality evidence for benefits with its use, challenges have been encountered
in the correct and consistent implementation of the surgical safety checklist (SSC). Previous …

Background Teamwork in the operating theatre is becoming increasingly recognized as a
major factor in clinical outcomes. Many tools have been developed to measure teamwork …

A research agenda for investigating the impact of team-work training on patient safety in the
perioperative environment is presented. The current status of teamwork training is reviewed …

The study, first published in 2006, looks at patient safety from the perspective of surgery,
looking at surgeons' technical skills, surgical team performance in the operating theatre, the …

Background While there has been much discussion extolling the virtues of using 'time out'as
a means of preventing the potential for sentinel events, to date there has been little …

Objectives To define the target domains of culture-improvement interventions, to assess the
impact of these interventions on surgical culture and to determine whether culture …

Surgical excellence is traditionally defined in terms of technical performance, with little
regard for the importance of interpersonal communication and leadership skills. Studies in …

Objective To assess the inter-rater reliability (IRR) of two novel observation tools for
measuring surgical safety checklist performance and teamwork. Summary background Data …

Wrong-site surgery is all too common. Despite more than a decade of campaigns by major
organizations to prevent these events, there are still reports of such mistakes. This article …