A multi-faceted, longitudinal and prospective collaborative inquiry was initiated in December
2002 with one half of the cohort of operating theatre personnel in a large, acute UK hospital …

Background: Changing teamwork climate in healthcare through a collective shift in attitudes
and values may be a necessary precursor to establishing a positive teamwork culture, where …

Work in progress is reported for a research project aiming to improve multiprofessional
teamworking in operating theatres through iterative educational intervention. Experimental …

As a key department within a healthcare organisation, the operating room is a hazardous
environment, where the consequences of errors are high, despite the relatively low rates of …

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 …

Hospitals, and surgical operating theatres (OTs) in particular, are environments in which
inter‐professional teamwork and learning are essential to secure patient safety and effective …

Rationale The aim of the research that we report here was to empirically assess the
cohesiveness of the multidisciplinary operating theatre (OT) team. Method We used …

Background A growing body of research shows links between poor teamwork and
preventable surgical errors. Similar work has received little attention in the Global South …

Background The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations is
proposing that hospitals measure culture beginning in 2007. However, a reliable and widely …

Background Effective teamwork is critical for safe, high-quality care in the operating room
(OR); however, teamwork interventions have not consistently resulted in the expected gains …