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The performance of professionals in the health-care or any other industry is subject to human error. The acknowledgment of human error as ubiquitous and inevitable is the key premise for understanding the importance of human factors. Nontechnical skills (NTS) can improve performance, and attempts have been made to quantify this ambiguous quality. The implementation of NTS into training is possible as experience from flight crew training and aircraft maintenance personnel show. A number of factors that influence human performance negatively have been identified. For instance, stress and fatigue have a negative impact on the performance of surgeons, although this effect to a large extent is neglected among surgeons. Simulation training can facilitate NTS training by integrating elements of, e.g., stress in a simulated environment and thereby prepare surgeons for challenges in patient care and improve surgical training.
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Müller, S., Al-Singary, W., Patel, H.R.H. (2012). Human Factors, Nontechnical Skills, and Surgical Training. In: Patel, H., Joseph, J. (eds) Simulation Training in Laparoscopy and Robotic Surgery. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2930-1_2
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