Multidisciplinary teamwork improves use of the operating room: A multicenter study

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 220, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1070-1076

  Van Veen Berkx, Elizabeth ^a   Bitter, Justin ^b   Kazemier, Geert ^c   Scheffer, Gert J ^d   Gooszen, Hein G ^d  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b BERNHOVEN HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS FUNCTIONAL TEAM; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; HUMAN; MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAMWORK; OPERATING ROOM; OPERATING ROOM PERFORMANCE; PATIENT CARE; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEAMWORK; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COOPERATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; NETHERLANDS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME; UTILIZATION;

BENCHMARKING; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; NETHERLANDS; OPERATING ROOMS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84929841646     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: 18791190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2015.02.012     Document Type: Article

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