Patient safety in surgery: non-technical aspects of safe surgical performance

The performance of operative surgery has an understandable focus placed on dexterity, technical precision, as well as the choice of procedure. There is less appreciation of the cognitive and social skills of the individual surgeon and the effect that these have on the surgical team and on patient ou...

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Autores principales: Youngson, George G, Flin, Rhona
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2845118/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20298538
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1754-9493-4-4
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spelling pubmed-28451182010-03-26 Patient safety in surgery: non-technical aspects of safe surgical performance Youngson, George G Flin, Rhona Patient Saf Surg Editorial The performance of operative surgery has an understandable focus placed on dexterity, technical precision, as well as the choice of procedure. There is less appreciation of the cognitive and social skills of the individual surgeon and the effect that these have on the surgical team and on patient outcome. This article highlights that impact and explores the contribution of non-technical skills to safe practice within the operating room. BioMed Central 2010-03-18 /pmc/articles/PMC2845118/ /pubmed/20298538 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1754-9493-4-4 Text en Copyright ©2010 Youngson and Flin; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Patient safety in surgery: non-technical aspects of safe surgical performance
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title_full Patient safety in surgery: non-technical aspects of safe surgical performance
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title_short Patient safety in surgery: non-technical aspects of safe surgical performance
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2845118/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20298538
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1754-9493-4-4
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