Aims/Background: This review examines current research on teamwork in highly dynamic
domains of healthcare such as operating rooms, intensive care, emergency medicine, or …

Handoffs involve the transfer of rights, duties, and obligations from one person or team to
another. In many high-precision, high-risk contexts such as a relay race or handling air …

Case study research is a comprehensive method that incorporates multiple sources of data
to provide detailed accounts of complex research phenomena in real-life contexts. However …

Many 21st century operations are characterised by teams of workers dealing with significant
risks and complex technology, in competitive, commercially-driven environments. Informed …

Early in 2005, Phil Harris, Executive Director of the Association of Educational
Communications and Technology, approached Mike Spector and asked if he would like to …

Context Observational research is increasingly being used in health professions education
(HPE) research, yet it is often criticised for being prone to observer effects (also known as …

Background: Ineffective team communication is frequently at the root of medical error. The
objective of this study was to describe the characteristics of communication failures in the …

A team is more than a group of people in the same space, physical or virtual. In recent years,
increasing attention has been devoted to the social bases of cognition, taking into …

Background Grounded theory is a research methodology designed to develop, through
collection and analysis of data that is primarily (but not exclusively) qualitative, a well …

Unintended harm to patients in operating theatres is common. Correlations have been
demonstrated between teamwork skills and error rates in theatres. This was a single …