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  Just saw this important article, which everyone should read and pass on.  Guess what? Team training works.  Who woulda thunk it?  (Just kidding) BMJ Qual Saf 2014;23:359-372 [...]

My co-author of Beyond the Checklist, Patrick Mendenhall, just posted this on our blog www.beyondthechecklist.com.  There are obviously many parellels to health care — notably over reliance [...]

When we discuss the feasibility of team training in health care, many medical professionals insist that the aviation safety model can never be applied to the healthcare workplace.  Why?  Because [...]

In her December 20th blogpost on WonkBlog, Sarah Kliff reports on a study from the Journal Surgery which documents that surgeons have left 4,857 objects in patients over the last […]

Last Tuesday, I took a United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Philadelphia.  It was a beautiful day and happily the flight was on time, boarded smoothly, and the doors […]

Over the past two weeks, I have heard two talks that illustrated how leadership can embody what I call Team Intelligence — the ability of people to think, learn, plan, […]

There’s a lot of talk today about including patients as members of the healthcare team.This is supposed to help avoid medical errors and injuries and make patient care more about […]

Most of us don’t think of our families in terms of teamwork or team leadership and membership.  I know I certainly don’t.  I think a lot about teams when it […]