Over the past decade, readers of medical journals have gained skills in critically appraising
studies to determine whether the results can be trusted and applied to their own practice …

Background: Ineffective team communication is frequently at the root of medical error. The
objective of this study was to describe the characteristics of communication failures in the …

Qualitative research includes a variety of methodological approaches with different disciplinary
origins and tools. This article discusses three commonly used approaches: grounded …

Purpose Although the communication that occurs within health care teams is important to
both team function and the socialization of novices, the nature of team communication and its …

Background The intensive care unit (ICU) is a nexus for interspecialty and interdisciplinary
tensions because of its pivotal role in the care of the hospital's most critically ill patients and in …

Seventy six senior academics from 11 countries invite The BMJ’s editors to reconsider their
policy of rejecting qualitative research on the grounds of low priority. They challenge the …

During medical school, students are taught the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to
become competent physicians. Knowledge and skills are rigorously evaluated by written and …

Objective To assess whether structured team briefings improve operating room communication.
Design, Setting, and Participants This 13-month prospective study used a preintervention…

Healthcare professionals use the genre of case presentation to communicate among themselves
the salient patient information during treatment and management. In case presentation, …

Objectives Feedback should facilitate learning, but within medical education it often fails to
deliver on its promise. To better understand why feedback is challenging, we explored the …