Scoping review published measuring non-technical skills in surgery

Scoping review published measuring non-technical skills in surgery

Jackie (HEAL graduate) and Yu publish paper on objective metrics for assessing skills such as communication and situation awareness

KEY POINTS

  • Objective measures of nontechnical skills can overcome limitations of current assessment tools that are primarily subjective and checklist based.
  • Behavioral—particularly content-coded communication metrics—and physiological metrics were found to objectively measure nontechnical skills.
  • Further work is needed in investigating directional relationships of objective measures with NTS

Cha, J. S.  & Yu, D. (2021). Objective Measures of Surgeon Non-Technical Skills in Surgery: A Scoping Review. Human Factors. doi:10.1177/0018720821995319