Creating a safer operating room: groups, team dynamics and crew resource management principles. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Creating a safer operating room: groups, team dynamics and crew resource management principles. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Review
 
• Published February 2018

Creating a safer operating room: groups, team dynamics and crew resource management principles.

Wakeman D, Langham MR Jr. Semin Pediatr Surg. 2018;27:107-113.

Crew resource management is a strategy from aviation that has been applied in medicine to enhance teamwork. This review discusses crew resource management as a way to improve communication, establish a safety culture, and reduce morbidity and mortality in the operating room.

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