Effective Leadership of Surgical Teams: A Mixed Methods Study of Surgeon Behaviors and Functions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The importance of effective team leadership for achieving surgical excellence is widely accepted, but we understand less about the behaviors that achieve this goal. We studied cardiac surgical teams to identify leadership behaviors that best support surgical teamwork.

Methods

We observed, surveyed, and interviewed cardiac surgical teams, including 7 surgeons and 116 team members, from September 2013 to April 2015. We documented 1,926 surgeon/team member interactions during 22 cases, coded them by behavior type and valence (ie, positive/negative/neutral), and characterized them by leadership function (conductor, elucidator, delegator, engagement facilitator, tone setter, being human, and safe space maker) to create a novel framework of surgical leadership derived f

SUBMITTER: Stone JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5527126 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature