BMJ quality & safety
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BMJ quality & safety · Aug 2014
The Surgical Safety Checklist and Teamwork Coaching Tools: a study of inter-rater reliability.
To assess the inter-rater reliability (IRR) of two novel observation tools for measuring surgical safety checklist performance and teamwork. ⋯ Both tools demonstrated substantial IRR and required limited training to use. These instruments may be used to observe checklist performance and teamwork in the operating room. However, further refinement and calibration of observer expectations, particularly in rating teamwork, could improve the utility of the tools.