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creators_name: Britton, Carolina Relvas
creators_name: Hayman, Gareth
creators_name: Stroud, Nicola
title: Awareness of Human Factors in the operating theatres during the COVID-19 pandemic
ispublished: inpress
divisions: UCL
divisions: B02
divisions: C10
divisions: D16
divisions: G88
keywords: Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Surgery, Human Factors, Patient safety, Non-technical skills, Systems Resilience, COVID-19 pandemic, Operating Theatres, Healthcare, Communication, Teamwork
note: © The Author(s) 2020.
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abstract: One of the priorities at our large Operating Theatres Department is to support awareness and basic education of the multi-disciplinary teams in clinical Human Factors, to help build competence and capacity in healthcare towards a resilient system. From May 2019 until February 2020, our Human Factors Champions embarked on a project called Observation of Non-technical Skills and Teamwork in the operating theatres (ONSeT), to monitor and evaluate the benefits of local Human Factors education. In September 2020, six months after the COVID-19 pandemic hit the UK and caused a major disruption of surgical services, we decided to investigate the usefulness of the project and the impact of COVID-19 in the operating theatres, looking through the eyes of the Human Factors Champions. Results pointed to a consensus about ONSeT having helped during the pandemic, with regards to how teams worked and in enabling team leaders to be more responsive. Human Factors Champions found that feedback on performance was received in a non-threatening way and observation of performance became ‘second nature’. As organisations need to develop critical thinking, we think that the ONSeT project has helped us build some capacity for this, from the front-line onwards.
date: 2021-01-01
date_type: published
publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1177/1750458920978858
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 2276315
doi: 10.1177/1750458920978858
medium: Print-Electronic
lyricists_name: Britton, Maria Carolina
lyricists_id: MCBRI49
actors_name: Britton, Maria Carolina
actors_id: MCBRI49
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Journal of Perioperative Practice (JPP)
volume: 31
number: 1-2
pagerange: 44-50
pages: 7
event_location: England
issn: 1750-4589
citation:        Britton, Carolina Relvas;    Hayman, Gareth;    Stroud, Nicola;      (2021)    Awareness of Human Factors in the operating theatres during the COVID-19 pandemic.                   Journal of Perioperative Practice (JPP) , 31  (1-2)   pp. 44-50.    10.1177/1750458920978858 <https://doi.org/10.1177/1750458920978858>.    (In press).    Green open access   
 
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