Impact of team performance on the surgical safety checklist on patient outcomes: an operating room black box analysis.

Background: Surgical safety checklists reduce adverse events, but monitoring adherence to checklists is confounded by observation bias. The ORBB platform can monitor checklist compliance and correlate compliance with outcomes. This study aims to evaluate the association between checklist compliance and patient outcomes using the ORBB platform.

Does recall period have an effect on cancer patients' ratings of the severity of multiple symptoms?

Context: Choosing an appropriate recall period for symptom assessment in a clinical trial is dependent on the design and purpose of the trial.

Objective: To examine the effects of recall on symptom severity ratings by comparing ratings made using 24-hour and seven-day recall periods of the MD Anderson Symptom Inventory (MDASI).

Methods: Forty-two patients in their third to eighth week of chemoradiation rated their symptoms using the MDASI on two separate occasions (T1 and T2), one week apart.