Background Communication amongst team members is critical to providing safe, effective
medical care. We investigated the role of communication failures in patient injury using the …

Objective To provide guidelines to define the place of human factors in the management of
critical situations in anaesthesia and critical care. Design A committee of nineteen experts …

Communication constitutes an essential aspect of teamwork. This is especially true for audit
teams, where communication takes place not only within the work group but also with the …

The management of anxiety because of upcoming invasive coronary angiography (ICA)
remains suboptimal. Previously published studies investigating the potential of virtual reality …

Aim To develop a patient, assessment, situation, safety concerns, background, action,
recommendation (PASS-BAR) handoff training program and compare the educational …

Background Handovers during medical emergencies are challenging due to time-critical,
dynamic and oftentimes unorderly and distracting situations. We evaluated the effect of …

This is a review-article which selectively reviews key concepts adopted in team performance
evaluation literature. This review intends to promote future innovative methods for objective …

Restorative Just Culture in Practice: Implementation and Evaluation Page 1 223 Chapter 13
Civility Saves Lives Joe Farmer, Penny Hurst and Chris Turner Contents The Impact of …

The purpose of this study was to develop a standardized hand‐off program based on the
SWITCH tool (surgical procedure, wet, instruments, tissue, counts, have you any questions?) …

A segurança dos doentes nos serviços de saúde, foi sempre uma preocupação dos
gestores em saúde. Um dos aspetos que a pode comprometer, é a transferência de …