Novel Application of a Dynamic, In-room Survey Platform to Measure Surgical Team Satisfaction.

Objective: To elucidate the potential usage of continuous feedback regarding team satisfaction and correlations with operative performance and patient outcomes.

Background: Continuous, actionable assessment of teamwork quality in the operating room (OR) is challenging. This work introduces a novel, data-driven approach to prospectively and dynamically assess health care provider satisfaction with teamwork in the OR.

Operative Team Familiarity and Specialization at an Academic Medical Center.

Objective: To propose a framework for quantification of surgical team familiarity.

Background: Operating room (OR) teamwork quality is associated with familiarity among team members and their individual specialization. We describe novel measures of OR team familiarity and specialty experience.