Does team leader gender matter? A Bayesian reconciliation of leadership and patient care during trauma resuscitations.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Team leadership facilitates teamwork and is important to patient care. It is unknown whether physician gender-based differences in team leadership exist. The objective of this study was to assess and compare team leadership and patient care in trauma resuscitations led by male and female physicians.

Methods

We performed a secondary analysis of data from a larger randomized controlled trial using video recordings of emergency department trauma resuscitations at a Level 1 trauma center from April 2016 to December 2017. Subjects included emergency medicine and surgery residents functioning as trauma team leaders. Eligible resuscitations included adult patients meeting institutional trauma activation criteria. Two video-recorded observations for each participant were c

SUBMITTER: Rosenman ED 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7823088 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature