"Disruptive behavior" in the operating room: A prospective observational study of triggers and effects of tense communication episodes in surgical teams.

BACKGROUND:Tense communication and disruptive behaviors during surgery have often been attributed to surgeons' personality or hierarchies, while situational triggers for tense communication were neglected. Goals of this study were to assess situational triggers of tense communication in the ope...

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Main Authors: Sandra Keller, Franziska Tschan, Norbert K Semmer, Eliane Timm-Holzer, Jasmin Zimmermann, Daniel Candinas, Nicolas Demartines, Martin Hübner, Guido Beldi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226437