Experiences of surgical team members with perioperative briefing
and debriefing
In general, surgical team members were positive towards perioperative
briefing and debriefing (Figure 1). However, the percentages of (strong)
agreement decreased for six of seven items from 2014 to 2019. In 2019,
81.1% of team members indicated that perioperative briefing and
debriefing made agreements of the
day clear, 69.3% felt that the instrument enabled them to work as a
team and 66% indicated that perioperative briefing and debriefing
ensured that they reminded each other about agreements. The lowest
percentages of (strong) agreement were for the items ‘less work to
rectify agreements failed’ (33.3%), ‘start on time’ (35.9%) and ‘more
pleasure in my work’ (49.7%), although the scores of the last two items
improved slightly in 2019 compared to that in 2016. Compared to 2014,
only ‘start on time’ showed improvement in the score for (strong)
agreement.
Insert Figure 1 Experiences with perioperative briefing and debriefing
in 2014 (N = 123), 2016 (N = 107) and 2019 (N = 150) here -
The most prominent reported strengths of briefing and debriefing were
related to discussing the course of the day and the opportunity for
giving feedback to improve their daily surgical work (Table 2). An
important limitation was that surgical teams are often incomplete during
briefing and debriefing due to poor timing or lack of sense of urgency.
Insert Table 2. Top three positive and negative experiences with
perioperative briefing and debriefing in 2019 here -