Woods DD, Cook RI, Billings CE. The impact of technology on physician cognition and performance. Journal of Clinical Monitoring. 1995;11(1):5-8.

This article describes how technology influences physician performance.

Sherwood G, Thomas E, Bennett DS, Lewis P. A teamwork model to promote patient safety in critical care. Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America. 2002;14(4):333-340.

This article argues that to create a safe health care system, providers must understand teamwork as a complementary relationship of interdependence.  In order to accomplish this, the authors stress using an aviation crew resource management approach.

Risser DT, Rice MM, Salisbury ML, Simon R, Jay GD, Berns SD. The potential for improved teamwork to reduce medical errors in the emergency department. The MedTeams Research Consortium. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 1999;34(3):373-383.

This article describes care work teams created to improve team communication and coordination and reduce errors within the emergency department.

Kosnik LK. The new paradigm of crew resource management: Just what is needed to re-engage the stalled collaborative movement? Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement. 2002;28(5):235-241.

This article recommends incorporating crew resource management (CRM) into Collaborative techniques for improving health care. CRM is a communication methodology developed by the aviation industry, based on team-centered decision making systems.

Helmreich RL. On error management: Lessons from aviation. British Medical Journal. 2000;320(7237):781-785.

This article states that the medical field can learn much from the aviation industry in preventing errors.  Both areas suffer from human errors which lead to dangerous results, however, both professions can dramatically reduce these errors with improved communication and teamwork.

Helmreich RL, Merritt AC
Aldershot, Great Britain: Ashgate Publishing; 2001

This book studies the influence of culture in the aviation and medical professions. The effects of professional, national, and organizational cultures are discussed as they influence individual attitudes, values, and team interaction. The implications for error management, cultural conflict, and cultural psychology are also discussed.

Frank JR, Langer B. Collaboration, communication, management, and advocacy: Teaching surgeons new skills through the CanMEDS Project. World Journal of Surgery. Aug 2003;27(8):972-978.

This articles describes the approach employed by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC), called the Canadian Medical Education Directions for Specialists (CanMEDS) Project. Through this endeavor the RCPSC has adopted a framework of core competencies organized around seven physician "roles": Medical Expert, Communicator, Collaborator, Manager, Health Advocate, Scholar, and Professional.

de Leval MR, Carthey J, Wright DJ, Farewell VT, Reason JT. Human factors and cardiac surgery: A multicenter study. Journal of Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery. 2000;119(4 Pt 1):661-672.

This article describes a study which tested the role of human factors on surgical outcomes, with a series of 243 arterial switch operations performed by 21 surgeons taken as a sample. The study concluded that human factors play a key role in negative cardiac outcomes.

de Leval MR. Human factors and surgical outcomes: A Cartesian dream. Lancet. 1997;349(9053):723-725.

This article dicusses human factors that directly lead to various surgical outcomes.

Cook RI, Woods DD. Adapting to new technology in the operating room. Human Factors. 1996;38(4):593-613.

This article describes a study which tested the impact of new technology on skilled practitioner performance. The study observed the introduction of a new, highly integrated, microprocessor-based physiological monitoring system for use in cardiac anesthesia.