Oxford NOTECHS II: A modified theatre team non-technical skills scoring system

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Robertson, Eleanor R ^a   Hadi, Mohammed ^b   Morgan, Lauren J ^a   Pickering, Sharon P ^b   Collins, Gary ^a   New, Steve ^c   Griffin, Damien ^b   McCulloch, Peter ^a   Catchpole, Ken C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHECKLIST; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; OXFORD NOTECHS SCORING SYSTEM; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SKILL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEAMWORK; TRAINING; VALIDATION PROCESS; ADULT; AGED; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OPERATING ROOM; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OPERATING ROOMS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84897069479     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090320     Document Type: Article

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