Factors Influencing Team Behaviors in Surgery: A Qualitative Study to Inform Teamwork Interventions.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Surgical excellence demands teamwork. Poor team behaviors negatively affect team performance and are associated with adverse events and worse outcomes. Interventions to improve surgical teamwork focusing on frontline team members' nontechnical skills have proliferated but shown mixed results. Literature on teamwork in organizations suggests that team behaviors are also contingent on psychosocial, cultural, and organizational factors. This study examined factors influencing surgical team behaviors to inform more contextually sensitive and effective approaches to optimizing surgical teamwork. METHODS:This qualitative study of cardiac surgical teams in a large United States teaching hospital included 34 semistructured interviews. Thematic network analysis was used to examine percep

SUBMITTER: Aveling EL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6021556 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature