Objective: To determine the effect of operative versus nonoperative management of
emergency general surgery conditions on short-term and long-term outcomes. Background …

When an accident happens in an organization, two different approaches are possible to
explain its origin and dynamics. The first approach, called individual blame logic aims at …

This is the second, revised and expanded edition. The first edition was published under the
slightly longer title" How to Take Smart Notes. One Simple Technique to Boost Writing …

Background A video and medical data recorder in the operating theatre is possible, but
concerns over privacy, data use and litigation have limited widespread implementation. The …

Background Few studies have addressed the role of residents' participation in morbidity and
mortality after orthopaedic surgery. The present study utilized the 2005–2010 National …

2 technical–rational or functional approach to teaching and learning communication. It is
hard to escape this dominant discourse of instrumentality—with its language of 'skills','steps' …

Objective To determine whether an increase in the rate of undesirable events occurs after
care provided by trainees at the beginning of the academic year. Design Retrospective …

To customize treatments to individual patients entails costs of coordination and cognition.
Thus, providers sometimes choose treatments based on norms for broad classes of patients …

In this Commentary, we explain the case for a standardized cesarean delivery surgical
technique. There are three strong arguments for a standardized approach to cesarean …

We consider the problem of minimizing daily expected resource usage and overtime costs
across multiple parallel resources such as anesthesiologists and operating rooms, which …