
TASK,TEAM AND TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION
IN SURGICAL CARE
Ken Catchpole
Director of Surgical Safety and Human Factors Research,
Cedars Sinai Medical Centre, Los Angeles, USA
Teamwork training solutions based on Crew Resource Management
have been popular in healthcare as a solution to patient safety prob-
lems. In this paper, I argue that team and technology requirements
vary considerably with the types of surgery undertaken; and thus, that
a more sophisticated model of process improvement in healthcare is
required.
Introduction (example of a main heading)
Arguably the two major deployments of human factors expertise in healthcare in
the last decade have been ...