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

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Surgical care is the product of numerous interprofessional interactions, reflected in several key multidisciplinary teams. In breast reconstruction, one study identified an increased risk for reoperation due to higher rates of surgical site infections in less familiar teams [ 14 ].

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

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Benefits of Familiarity In the operating room (OR), a core multidisciplinary team is responsible for the delivery of each procedure, working together on a shift-based and/or specialty-based rota. The Future for Surgical Teams? What real-world strategies can we implement to support our own teams to perform at their very best?