How prevalent are hazardous attitudes among orthopaedic surgeons?

ABSTRACT:

Background

So-called "hazardous attitudes" (macho, impulsive, antiauthority, resignation, invulnerable, and confident) were identified by the Federal Aviation Administration and the Canadian Air Transport Administration as contributing to road traffic incidents among college-aged drivers and felt to be useful for the prevention of aviation accidents. The concept of hazardous attitudes may also be useful in understanding adverse events in surgery, but it has not been widely studied.

Questions/purposes

We surveyed a cohort of orthopaedic surgeons to determine the following: (1) What is the prevalence of hazardous attitudes in a large cohort of orthopaedic surgeons? (2) Do practice setting and/or demographics influence variation in hazardous attitudes in our cohort of surgeons?

SUBMITTER: Bruinsma WE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4385355 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature