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Knowing Me, Knowing You: What Can We Learn From Familiar Surgical Teams?

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Work in the OR involves highly adaptive and task-focused collaboration between team members, often around safety-critical protocols and sophisticated equipment; intuitively, it makes sense that a history of working together would be helpful. vs 10.0%), longer operative times, and a longer hospital stay.

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Knowing Me, Knowing You: Can We Proxy Surgical Team Familiarity?

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Barriers to Consistency Despite the superior performance of more familiar teams, hospital infrastructures can create significant logistical challenges to forming consistent and familiar teams — routinely bringing unfamiliar professionals together to fill rotas and maintain services. The Future for Surgical Teams?