Reliable assessment of general surgeons' non-technical skills based on video-recordings of patient simulated scenarios

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 206, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 810-817

  Spanager, Lene ^a   Beier Holgersen, Randi ^b   Dieckmann, Peter ^a   Konge, Lars ^a   Rosenberg, Jacob ^a   Oestergaard, Doris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b HILLERØD HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Assessment; Nontechnical skills; Operating room; Surgeon; Surgery; Training

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BLEEDING; CHECKLIST; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTENT VALIDITY; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; GASTROSCOPY; GENERAL SURGERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEMICOLECTOMY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LEADERSHIP; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NON TECHNICAL SKILLS FOR SURGEONS DK; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SIMULATION; SKILL; SPLEEN DISEASE; SURGEON; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TRAINING; TEAMWORK; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING; VIDEORECORDING;

ASSESSMENT; NONTECHNICAL SKILLS; OPERATING ROOM; SURGEON; SURGERY; TRAINING;

COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL ERRORS; PATIENT SIMULATION; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84886713232     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: 18791883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2013.04.002     Document Type: Article

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