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World Journal of Surgery
Published in: World Journal of Surgery 4/2011

01-04-2011

Surgical Flow Disruption: Measurement and Impact of Stressful Events in the Operating Room

Author: Latif Al-Hakim

Published in: World Journal of Surgery | Issue 4/2011

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Excerpt

I am writing to remark on the comments of Arora and Sevdalis [1] and the reply by Henrickson Parker et al. [2]. Both sides of the arguments are true, depending on the interpretation of the impact of disruptions on the surgical team and how such impact is measured. Despite evidence to suggest that disruption events are most likely to affect the surgical team’s performance, there are no studies in the existing literature in which the effect of disruption on surgical time has been measured. This is an important gap in the literature that must be addressed. …
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Arora S, Sevdalis N (2010) Surgical flow disruptions: measurement and impact of stressful events in the operating room. World J Surg 34:2247–2248PubMedCrossRef
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Henrickson Parker S, Wiegmann D, Sundt T (2010) Surgical flow disruptions: measurement and impact of stressful events in the operating room. Reply. World J Surg 34:2249–2250CrossRef
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Al-Hakim L (2008) Surgical disruption: information quality perspective. Int J Inf Qual 2:192–204CrossRef
Metadata
Title
Surgical Flow Disruption: Measurement and Impact of Stressful Events in the Operating Room
Author
Latif Al-Hakim
Publication date
01-04-2011
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
World Journal of Surgery / Issue 4/2011
Print ISSN: 0364-2313
Electronic ISSN: 1432-2323
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00268-010-0841-5

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