Nontechnical skills in pediatric surgery: factors influencing operative performance.

George G. Youngson

Commentary

Nontechnical skills in pediatric surgery: factors influencing operative performance.

April 20, 2016

Youngson GG. J Pediatr Surg. 2016;51(2):226-30.

View more articles from the same authors.

Nontechnical skills are gaining interest as a way to enhance surgical team performance. This commentary describes a model for identifying, training, and assessing surgeon competencies in a defined set of nontechnical skills during pediatric surgery.

PubMed citation

Available at

Related Resources From the Same Author(s)

Patient safety in surgery: non-technical aspects of safe surgical performance.

April 7, 2010

Surgeons' non-technical skills in the operating room: reliability testing of the NOTSS behavior rating system.

June 12, 2008

Adverse events in patients with return emergency department visits.

January 20, 2015

Readiness of US general surgery residents for independent practice.

August 20, 2018

Characteristics of medical professional liability claims in patients with cardiovascular diseases.

April 21, 2010

The Lancet Commission on lessons for the future from the COVID-19 pandemic.

October 12, 2022

Testing an intervention to improve health care worker well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cluster randomized clinical trial.

May 15, 2024

We asked the experts: the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist and the COVID-19 pandemic: recommendations for content and implementation adaptations.

March 17, 2021

Toward safer opioid prescribing in HIV care (TOWER): a mixed-methods, cluster-randomized trial.

June 22, 2022

From implementation to sustainment: a large-scale adverse event disclosure support program generated through embedded research in the Veterans Health Administration.

August 18, 2021

Related Resources

The rise of human factors: optimising performance of individuals and teams to improve patients' outcomes.

July 10, 2019

Learning From Invited Reviews.

April 10, 2019

Safety stop: a valuable addition to the pediatric universal protocol.

November 19, 2018

Quality, Value, and Patient Safety in Orthopedic Surgery.

October 24, 2018

Enhancing pediatric perioperative patient safety.

November 29, 2017

Post-traumatic stress disorder amongst surgical trainees: an unrecognised risk?

July 1, 2017

Standardise, Educate, Harmonise: Commissioning the Conditions for Safer Surgery.

April 23, 2014

Name and shame.

July 31, 2012

Near-miss events are really missed! Reflections on incident reporting in a department of pediatric surgery.

May 9, 2012

Defining the technical skills of teamwork in surgery.

March 28, 2011

See More About The Topic

Operating Room

Health Care Executives and Administrators

Educators

Pediatrics

Surgery

Nontechnical skills in pediatric surgery: factors influencing operative performance.

Connect With Us

Sign up for Email Updates

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Nontechnical skills in pediatric surgery: factors influencing operative performance.

Connect With Us

Sign up for Email Updates

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Submit Your Innovations

Continue as a Guest

Continue Logged In

Submit Your Innovations

Continue as a Guest

Continue logged in

New Users to the PSNet site

Submit Your Training

Continue as a Guest

Continue Logged In

Submit Your Training

Continue as a Guest

Continue Logged In

New Users to the PSNet site

Submit Your Toolkit

Continue as a Guest

Continue Logged In

Submit Your Toolkit

Continue as a Guest

Continue Logged In

New Users to the PSNet site

Submit Your WebM&M Case

Continue as a Guest

Continue Logged In

Submit Your WebM&M Case

Continue as a Guest

Already have a PSNet

Account?

New Users