PURPOSE Checklists are increasingly being used by surgical teams in the perioperative period to improve clinical care and increase patient safety. In this article, we review some of the mechanisms by which checklists work and evaluate evidence supporting their use. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS There is a growing body of evidence showing the importance of team-based checklists in clinical care. In multi...

Purpose: This study aimed to verify the impact of participatory decision-making (PDM) on team performance (TPF) in hotel s department/team. In particular, it investigated role a mediator for creative self-efficacy (CSE) relationship between PDM and TPF. determined optimal process service organization by verifying controlled mediating effect collective efficacy (CEF) among PDM, CSE, Design/metho...

The aim of our study was to explore the influencing factors of the intention to share tacit knowledge in the university research team. On the basis of related literature review, combing with the Theory of Planned Behavior, we proposed a research model about the intention to share tacit knowledge in the university research team. After the completion of questionnaire, we surveyed of 202 researche...

Agents can learn to improve their coordination with their teammates and increase team performance. We are interested in forming a team, i.e., selecting a subset of agents, that includes such learning agents. Before the team is formed, there are finite training instances that provide opportunities for the learning agents to improve. Agents learn at different rates, and hence, the allocation of t...

Software organizations are increasingly adopting the software development practices associated with the Extreme Programming (XP) methodology. Most reports on the efficacy of these practices are anecdotal. This paper provides a benchmark measurement framework for researchers and practitioners to assess concretely the extent to which an organization has adopted XP practices and the result of this...

Information sharing is important in agent-based sensing, especially when only a small subset of a large team of agents can directly observe local environment phenomena. Moreover, sharing is further complicated in non-stationary environments, where changes in the phenomena over time require the team to collectively revise their beliefs as the phenomena change. In this paper, we first analyticall...

The aim of this study was to investigate relationships between pre-competition group cohesion, mood, and performance in a soccer team over the course of a season. A male soccer team in England played eight games and data were analyzed on a game-by-game basis. Participants completed the Group Environment Questionnaire (Carron, Brawley, & Widmeyer, 1985) and Brunel Mood Scale to assess Anger, Con...

The Promoting Healthy Lifestyles: Alternative Models' Effects (PHLAME) study evaluates the efficacy of two intervention strategies for improving nutrition and physical activity practices in fire fighters: a team-centered program and a one-on-one format targeting the individual. PHLAME compares these two behavior change models (the team-based versus the one-on-one approaches) against a usual-car...

Breastfeeding Self Efficacy is a mother's belief to breastfeed her baby which influences effort, thought process and response when encountering difficulties in breastfeeding. The factors that influence self-efficacy are mastery experiences, other people's verbal persuasion, somatic emotional conditions. success of exclusive breastfeeding cannot be separated from the factor, namely desire confid...