Francisco Javier Ferreira-Alfaya
Comprehensibility of South African pictograms by sub-Saharan African prospective-users
Patient education and counseling
high workload may negatively impact surgical teams performance jeopardize patient safety aim study measure workload surgical team across different surgical roles specialties techniques several hospitals crosssectional multicenter study performed operating rooms eight teaching hospitals affiliated isfahan university medical sciences iran conclusion surgical procedure members surgical team completed surgery task load index surgtlx questionnaire assess workload levels descriptive statistics analysis variance anova pearson correlations performed compare surgical roles specialties techniques surgical time workload overall subscale total 409 workload questionnaires obtained 76 surgical teams cases involving 346 surgical team members total workload among participants 3241 1721 surgical complexity physical demands mental demands highest workload subscales distraction lowest workload subscale cardiovascular specialty higher workload compared specialties open techniques resulted higher workload compared minimally invasive techniques surgical technologists act role circulating scrub nurse css experienced highest workload followed surgical residents surgeons results study showed workload members surgical team disproportionately high influenced factors specialty technique role surgical duration knowing distribution workload among members surgical team efforts made optimize team members workload