Background The use of checklists is a promising strategy for improving patient safety in all
types of surgical processes inside and outside the operating room. This article aims to …

Context Few data exist on the relationships between experienced physicians' work hours
and sleep, and patient safety. Objective To determine if sleep opportunities for attending …

Objectives To confirm the utility of a 10-point Surgical Apgar Score to rate surgical outcomes
in a large cohort of patients. Design Using electronic intraoperative records, we calculated …

BACKGROUND: Current surgical training provides little opportunity for surgeons to
recognize and manage intraoperative stress before it affects performance and compromises …

Objective: To test the construct validity of the Observational Teamwork Assessment for
Surgery (OTAS) tool. Summary Background Data: Poor teamwork in surgical teams has …

This research analyzes the internal service supply chain of a perioperative surgical services
department of a nonacademic community hospital using the theory of swift and even flow as …

BACKGROUND: Assessment of surgical competence is a priority; however little is known
about surgeons' perceptions of competence. We investigated components of competence …

Research has shown that about 10% of hospitalized patients suffer an adverse event as a
result of the care that is delivered to them. In aiming to reduce the incidence of adverse …

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OBJECTIVES: To develop weighted error-based, generic and procedure-specific rating
scales, to validate these scales for video-based assessment during virtual carotid artery …