Objective: To compare improvement in surgical team performance after interventions
addressing teamwork culture, work systems, or both. Design: Suite of 5 identical controlled …

Importance Patient safety interventions, like the World Health Organization Surgical Safety
Checklist, require effective implementation strategies to achieve meaningful results …

Background To investigate the effectiveness of combining teamwork training and lean
process improvement, two distinct approaches to improving surgical safety. We conducted a …

Medical care is expanding in a way that is becoming more fragmented, making opportunities
for medical errors more common. Patients are increasingly falling through the cracks or …

et al. 2006: 1578). However, since teamwork is more than task work, merely forming a group
with the above characteristics does not ensure that a team will function effectively …

The aim of this study was to evaluate a brief team training program in relation to teams'
observed nontechnical skills (NTSs) in surgery, teams' perceptions of safety culture, and the …

To improve surgical team communication, a team at Broward Health Imperial Point Hospital,
Ft Lauderdale, Florida, implemented a program for process improvement using a locally …

Importance Modification of the World Health Organization's Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC)
is a critical component of its implementation. To facilitate the SSC's use, it is important to …

Background Teamwork training and system standardisation have both been proposed to
reduce error and harm in surgery. Since the approaches differ markedly, there is potential for …

Background The impact and efficacy of the World Health Organization Surgery Safety
Checklist (SSC) is uncertain. We sought to determine if the SSC decreases complications …