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

Incision

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. There are significant logistical challenges to forming consistent and familiar teams.

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

Incision

The Future for Surgical Teams? With established savings in time and efficiency, the benefits of familiar teams are of high value to surgical managers and healthcare units. As we move towards greater and greater collaboration, de-siloing, and optimized information sharing, the future looks bright for surgical teams.