Thinking ahead of the surgeon: Developing a behavioural rating system for scrub practitioners' non-technical skills (splints)

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 862-866

  Mitchell, Lucy ^a   Flin, Rhona ^a   Yule, Steven ^a   Mitchell, Janet ^b   Coutts, Kathy ^c   Youngson, George ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b ABERDEEN ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL ABERDEEN CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EVENTS; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; EFFECTIVE PERFORMANCE; EXPERT PANELS; INTERVIEW STUDY; ITERATIVE PROCESS; NON-TECHNICAL SKILLS; PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES; RATING SYSTEM; SEMI-STRUCTURED; SITUATION AWARENESS; TASK ANALYSIS; TASK MANAGEMENT;

HEALTH CARE; HOSPITALS; JOB ANALYSIS; RATING; TAXONOMIES;

ERGONOMICS;

EID: 79952979610     PISSN: 10711813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1518/107118110X12829369606486     Document Type: Conference Paper

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