Publications by authors named "Nicholas Blundell"
Article Synopsis
- The study examines the critical view of safety (CVS) in laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) and highlights that many surgeons struggle to achieve adequate CVS according to expert evaluations, indicating a need for improved teaching methods.
- A comparison was made between surgeon self-assessments (SAs) of their own video performances and assessments made by trained expert raters, showing that surgeons consistently overestimated their skills.
- The results indicated that out of 25 participating surgeons, those who submitted videos did not achieve adequate CVS and exhibited overconfidence in their self-ratings across multiple assessment scales.
Objective: Doctors should involve their patients in making decisions about their care. We studied patients with heart disease to assess if shared decision-making occurs and to study factors that predict patients' choices or influence cardiologists' behaviour.
Methods: 85 patients attending for arteriography were assessed to elicit preferred involvement in decision-making, perception of involvement, and confidence in the decision.