 |
|
Preoperative Checklists and Team Briefings—Reply
Lorelei Lingard, PhD
|
|
| Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text and any section headings. |
|
|
|
In reply
We thank Dr Cooper for his thoughtful comment in which he raises 3 important issues about our article. The first two we agree with unreservedly. First, although postoperative debriefing was not part of our research intervention, it can offer a powerful corollary to preoperative briefing, providing additional opportunities for conflict resolution and team learning. Second, while our research ethics approval precluded the implementation of preoperative briefings with emergency surgical procedures, the benefits of briefing in such emergent contexts are likely high and, therefore, worthy of study.
Dr Cooper's third point involves the added benefits that may have emerged if our briefing tool and educational process had occurred in the context of a comprehensive CRM-based program. While we concur that the strengths of CRM training are well-established, our article suggested that 1 of its limitations (or costs) was that it removes staff from the work environment, . . . [Full Text of this Article]
AUTHOR INFORMATION
 CiteULike  Connotea  Del.icio.us  Digg  Reddit  Technorati  Twitter
What's this?
RELATED ARTICLE
Evaluation of a Preoperative Checklist and Team Briefing Among Surgeons, Nurses, and Anesthesiologists to Reduce Failures in Communication
Lorelei Lingard, Glenn Regehr, Beverley Orser, Richard Reznick, G. Ross Baker, Diane Doran, Sherry Espin, John Bohnen, and Sarah Whyte
Arch Surg. 2008;143(1):12-17.
ABSTRACT
| FULL TEXT
RELATED LETTER
Preoperative Checklists and Team Briefings
Matthew M. Cooper
Arch Surg. 2008;143(10):1023-1024.
EXTRACT
| FULL TEXT
|
