Observational teamwork assessment for surgery: Construct validation with expert versus novice raters

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 249, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1047-1051

  Sevdalis, Nick ^a,b   Lyons, Melinda ^a   Healey, Andrew N ^a   Undre, Shabnam ^a   Darzi, Ara ^a   Vincent, Charles A ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL PATIENT SAFETY AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; HUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL TEAMWORK ASSESSMENT FOR SURGERY; OPERATING ROOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SKILL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEAMWORK; VALIDATION PROCESS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COOPERATION; GROUP PROCESS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PUBLIC RELATIONS; REPRODUCIBILITY; UROLOGIC SURGERY;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNICATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 67649235806     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181a50220     Document Type: Article

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