Surgeons' attitudes are associated with reoperation and readmission rates.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Attitudes influence how people make decisions. In an effort to decrease pilot judgment-related accidents, the Federal Aviation Administration teaches new pilots about hazardous attitudes that are believed to be incompatible with safe flight: macho, impulsive, worry, resignation, self-confidence, and antiauthority. If these attitudes are hazardous for pilots and their passengers, they may also be incompatible with the reliable and safe delivery of surgical care.

Questions/purposes

The purposes of this study were (1) to ascertain to what extent surgeons harbor hazardous attitudes; and (2) to determine their relationship, if any, to reoperation and readmission rates.

Methods

We selected validated aviation psychology tools that are used to measure these attitud

SUBMITTER: Kadzielski J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4385371 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature