Psychology

Organizational Behavior and Psychology
(last updated 06/09/08)

2008

Catchpole K, Mishra A, Handa A, McCulloch P. Teamwork and error in the operating room: analysis of skills and roles. Annals of Surgery 247: 699-706, 2008

Cooper JB, Blum RH, Carroll JS, Dershwitz M, Feinstein DM, Gaba DM, Morey JC, Singla AK. Differences in safety climate among hospital anesthesia departments and the effect of a realistic simulation-based training program. Anesthesia & Analgesia 106:574-584, 2008

Heslin MJ, Doster BE, Daily SL, Waldrum MR, Boudreaux AM, Smith AB, Peters G, Ragan DB, Buchalter S, Bland KI, Rue LW. Durable improvements in efficiency, safety, and satisfaction in the operating room. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 206: 1083-1089, 2008

Lingard L, Regehr G, Orser B, Reznick R, Baker GR, Doran D, Espin S, Bohnen J, Whyte S. Evaluation of preoperative checklist and team briefing among surgeons, nurses, and anesthesiologists to reduce failures in communication. Archives of Surgery 143: 12-17, 2008

Mills P, Neily J, Dunn E. Teamwork and communication in surgical teams: implications for patient safety. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 206:107-112, 2008

Masursky D, Dexter F, McCartney CJL, Isaacson SA, Nussmeier N. Predicting orthopedic surgeons’ preferences for peripheral nerve blocks for their patients. Anesthesia & Analgesia 106: 561-567, 2008 [PDF]

Olivares M, Terweisch C, Cassorla L. Structural estimation of the newsvendor model: an application to reserving operating room time. Management Science 54: 41-55, 2008

Sandberg WS, Sandberg EH, Seim AR, Anupama S, Ehrenfeld JM, Spring SF, Walsh JL. Real-time checking of electronic anesthesia records for documentation errors and automatically text messaging clinicians improves quality of documentation. Anesthesia & Analgesia 106:192-201, 2008

2007

Allard J, Bleakley A, Hobbs A, Vinnell T. "Who's on the team today?" The status of briefing amongst operating theatre practitioners in one UK hospital. Journal of Interprofessional Care 21:189-206, 2007

Dexter F, Lee JD, Dow AJ, Lubarsky DA. A psychological basis for anesthesiologists' operating room managerial decision-making on the day of surgery. Anesthesia & Analgesia 105:430-434, 2007 [PDF]

Healey AN, Primus CP, Koutantji M. Quantifying distraction and interruption in urological surgery. Quality & Safety in Health Care 16:135-139, 2007

Makary MA, Mukherjee A, Sexton JB, Syin D, Goodrich E, Hartmann E, Rowen L, Behrens DC, Marohn M, Pronovost PJ. Operating room briefings and wrong-site surgery. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 204:236-243, 2007

Marjamaa RA, Kirvela OA. Who is responsible for operating room management and how do we measure how well we do it. Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica 51:809-814, 2007

Montgomery K, Schneller ES. Hospitals’ strategies for orchestrating selection of physician preference items. Milbank Quarterly 85:307-335, 2007

Riley R, Forsyth R, Manias E, Iedema R. Whiteboards: mediating professional tensions in clinical practice. Communication & Medicine 4:165-175, 2007

Sevdalis N, Healey AN, Vincent CA. Distracting communications in the operating theatre. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 13:390-394, 2007

Wiegmann DA, ElBardissi AW, Dearani JA, Daly RC, Sundt TM 3rd. Disruptions in surgical flow and their relationship to surgical errors: an exploratory investigation. Surgery 142:658-665, 2007

2006

Bleakley A, Boyden J, Hobbs A, Walsh L, Allard J. Improving teamwork climate in operating theatres: the shift from multiprofessionalism to interprofessionalism. Journal of Interprofessional Care 20:461-470, 2006

Carayon P, Hundt AS, Alvarado CJ, Springman SR, Ayoub P. Patient safety in outpatient surgery: the viewpoint of the healthcare providers. Ergonomics 49:470-485, 2006

Christian CK, Gustafson ML, Roth EM, Sheridan TB, Gandhi TK, Dwyer K, Zinner MJ, Dierks MM. A prospective study of patient safety in the operating room. Surgery 139:159-173, 2006

Espin S, Lingard L, Baker GR, Regehr G. Persistence of unsafe practice in everyday work: an exploration of organizational and psychological factors constraining safety in the operating room. Quality & Safety in Health Care. 15:165-170, 2006

Healey AN, Sevdalis N, Vincent CA. Measuring intra-operative interference from distraction and interruption observed in the operating theatre. Ergonomics 49:589-604, 2006

Lingard L, Whyte S, Espin S, Baker GR, Orser B, Doran D. Towards safer interprofessional communication: constructing a model of "utility" from preoperative team briefings. Journal of Interprofessional Care 20:471-483, 2006

MacCormick AD, Parry BR. Judgment analysis of surgeon’s prioritization of patients for elective general surgery. Journal of Health Management 8:157-166, 2006

McDonald R, Waring J, Harrison S. Rules, safety and the narrativisation of identity: a hospital operating theatre case study. Sociology of Health & Illness 28:178-202, 2006

Makary MA, Sexton JB, Freischlag JA, Holzmueller CG, Millman EA, Rowen L, Pronovost PJ. Operating room teamwork among physicians and nurses: teamwork in the eye of the beholder. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 202:746-752, 2006

Makary MA, Sexton JB, Freischlag JA, Millman EA, Pryor D, Holzmueller C, Pronovost PJ. Patient safety in surgery. Annals of Surgery 243:628-635, 2006

Nemeth C, O’Connor M, Klock PA, Cook R. Discovering healthcare cognition: the use of cognitive artifacts to reveal cognitive work. Organization Studies 27:1011-1035, 2006

Riley R, Manias E. Governing time in operating rooms. Journal of Clinical Nursing 15:546-5532, 2006

Riley RG, Manias E. Governance in operating room nursing: nurses' knowledge of individual surgeons. Social Science & Medicine 62:1541-1551, 2006

Sexton JB, Makary MA, Tersigni AR, Pryor D, Hendrich A, Thomas EJ, Holzmueller CG, Knight AP, Wu Y, Pronovost PJ. Teamwork in the operating room: frontline perspectives among hospitals and operating room personnel. Anesthesiology 105:877-884, 2006

Undre S, Healey AN, Darzi A, Vincent CA. Observational assessment of surgical teamwork: a feasibility study? World Journal of Surgery 30:1774-1783, 2006

Undre S, Sevdalis N, Healey AN, Darzi SA, Vincent CA. Teamwork in the operating theatre: cohesion or confusion? Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 12:182-189, 2006

Waring J, McDonald R, Harrison S. Safety and complexity: Inter-departmental relationships as a threat to patient safety in the operating department. Journal of Health, Organisation and Management 20:227-242, 2006

Webster JL, Cao CG. Lowering communication barriers in operating room technology. Human Factors 48:747-758, 2006

Yule S, Flin R, Paterson-Brown S, Maran N. Non-technical skills for surgeons in the operating room: a review of the literature. Surgery 139:140-149, 2006

2005

Awad SS, Fagan SP, Bellows C, Albo D, Green-Rashad B, De la Garza M, Berger DH. Bridging the communication gap in the operating room with medical team training. The American Journal of Surgery 190:770-774, 2005

Hering K, Harvan J, Dangelo M, Jasinski D. The use of a computer website prior to scheduled surgery (a pilot study): impact on patient information, acquisition, anxiety level, and overall satisfaction with anesthesia care. AANA Journal 73:29-33, 2005

Lingard L, Espin S, Rubin B, Whyte S, Colmenares M, Baker GR, Doran D, Grober E, Orser B, Bohnen J, Reznick R. Getting teams to talk: development and pilot implementation of a checklist to promote interprofessional communication in the OR. Quality & Safety in Health Care 14:340-346, 2005

Lingard L, Regehr G, Espin S, Devito I, Whyte S, Buller D, Sadovy B, Rogers D, Reznick R. Perceptions of operating room tension across professions: building generalizable evidence and educational resources. Academic Medicine 80:S75-S9, 2005

Stahl JE, Egan MT, Goldman JM, Tenney D, Wiklund RA, Sandberg WS, Gazele S, Rattner DW. Introducing new technology into the operating room: measuring the impact on job performance and satisfaction. Surgery 137:518-526, 2005

2004

Healey AN, Undre S, Vincent CA. Developing observational measures of performance in surgical teams. Quality & Safety in Health Care 13 (Suppl 1): i33-i40, 2004

Heidegger T, Nuebling MI, German R, Borg H, Fluckiger K, Coi T, Husemann Y. Patient satisfaction with anesthesia care: information alone does not lead to improvement. Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia 51:801-805, 2004

Lingard L, Espin S, Whyte S, Regehr G, Baker GR, Reznick R, Bohnen J, Orser B, Doran D, Grober E. Communication failures in the operating room: an observational classification of recurrent types and effects. Quality & Safety in Health Care 13:330-334, 2004

Lingard L, Garwood S, Poenaru D. Tensions influencing operating room team function: does institutional context make a difference? Medical Education 37:691-699, 2004

Moss J, Xia Y. Improving operating room coordination: communication pattern assessment. The Journal of Nursing Administration 34:93-100, 2004

Nemeth CP, Cook RI, O'Connor M, Klock PA. Using cognitive artifacts to understand distributed cognition. The IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A 34:726- 735, 2004

2002

Lawton R, Parker D. Barriers to incident reporting in a healthcare system. Quality and Safety in Health Care 11:15-18, 2002

Lingard L, Reznick R, Espin S, Regehr G, DeVito I. Team communications in the operating room: talk patterns, sites of tension, and implications for novices. Academic Medicine 77:232-237, 2002

Marco AP. Game theoretic approaches to operating room management. American Surgeon 68:454-462, 2002

Moss J, Xiao Y. A comparison of communication needs of charge nurses in two operating room suites. Proceedings AMIA Annual Symposium 543-547, 2002

2001

Espin SL, Lingard LA. Time as a catalyst for tension in nurse-surgeon communication. AORN Journal 74:672-682, 2001

Jeske HC, Lederer W, Lorenz I, Kolbitsch C, Margreiter J, Kinzl J, Benzer A. The impact of business cards on physician recognition after general anesthesia. Anesthesia & Analgesia 93:1262-1264, 2001

Kondrat BK. Operating room nurse managers - competence and beyond. AORN Journal 73:1116-1127, 2001

Lasome CE, Xiao Y. Large public display boards: a case study of an OR board and design implications. Proceedings AMIA Annual Symposium 349-53, 2001

Macro AP. Game theory in the operating room environment. American Surgeon 67:92-95, 2001

1994

Gaba DM, Howard SK, Jump B. Production pressure in the work environment: California anesthesiologists’ attitudes and experiences. Anesthesiology 81:488-500, 1994