Perioperative medicine & outcomes
Clinician responses to disruptive intraoperative behaviour: patterns and norms identified from a multinational survey
Authors' conclusion
The responses of thousands of clinicians involved passivity, manipulativeness, or maliciousness.
Study context
- Population
- Perioperative clinicians surveyed via 23 perioperative organizations about responses to disruptive intraoperative behaviour
- Participants
- 4,789 complete responses
- Exposure
- Extreme passive-predominant vs Extreme assertive-predominant vs Moderate passive-predominant vs Moderate assertive-predominant vs Disparate pattern
- Outcome
- Responses to disruptive behaviour and response pattern groups
Methodological detailsmultinational survey, latent profile analysis
- Multinational survey
- Latent profile analysis
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
- Altered medical care in unindicated ways
- 33.7%
- Avoided communication with team members
- 54.6%
- Misled the offender
- 12.1%
- Profession, sex, management responsibilities and sexual orientation predicted response pattern group
- P < 0.001
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Clinician responses to disruptive intraoperative behaviour: patterns and norms identified from a multinational survey. Can J Anaesth. Published 21 December 2023. doi:10.
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