Journal of the American College of Surgeons
Volume 202, Issue 5 , Pages 746-752 , May 2006

Operating Room Teamwork among Physicians and Nurses: Teamwork in the Eye of the Beholder

Presented at the American College of Surgeons 91st Annual Clinical Congress, San Francisco, CA, October 2005.

  • Martin A. Makary, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
    • Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
    • Johns Hopkins Quality and Safety Research Group, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence address: Martin A Makary, MD, MPH, Department of Surgery and Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, 4940 Eastern Ave, Bldg A-5, Baltimore, MD 21224
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  • J. Bryan Sexton, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
    • Johns Hopkins Quality and Safety Research Group, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD
    • ,
  • Julie A. Freischlag, MD, FACS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
    • ,
  • Christine G. Holzmueller, BLA

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
    • Johns Hopkins Quality and Safety Research Group, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD
    • ,
  • E. Anne Millman, MS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
    • Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
    • Johns Hopkins Quality and Safety Research Group, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD
    • ,
  • Lisa Rowen, RN, DNSc

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nursing, John Hopkins University School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD
    • ,
  • Peter J. Pronovost, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
    • Department of Anesthesiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
    • Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
    • Department of Nursing, John Hopkins University School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD
    • Johns Hopkins Quality and Safety Research Group, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD

Received 15 November 2005 ,Revised 20 January 2006 ,Accepted 30 January 2006.

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 Competing Interests Declared: None.Supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, grant numbers 1UC1HS014246 and 1PO1HS1154401.

PII: S1072-7515(06)00117-7

doi: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2006.01.017

Journal of the American College of Surgeons
Volume 202, Issue 5 , Pages 746-752 , May 2006

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