CSRU publications

Recent papers (2004 - in press)

Healey, A. N., Primus, C. P., & Koutantji, M. (in press). Quantifying distraction and interruption in urological surgery. Quality and Safety in Health Care.

Healey, A. N., & Vincent, C. A. (in press). The systems of surgery. Theoretical Issues in Ergonomic Science.

Primus, C. P., Healey, A. N, & Undre, S. (in press). Distraction in the urology operating theatre. British Journal of Urology International.

Sevdalis, N., Healey, A. N., & Vincent, C. A. (in press). Distracting communications in the operating theatre. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice.

Undre. S., Sevdalis, N., Healey, A. N., Darzi, A., & Vincent, C. (in press). The Observational Teamwork Assessment for Surgery (OTAS): Refinement and Application in Urological Surgery. World Journal of Surgery.

Healey, A. N., Sevdalis, N. , & Vincent, C. A. (2006). Measuring intraoperative interference from distraction and interruption observed in the operating theatre. Ergonomics, 49, 589-604.

Healey, A. N., Undre, S., Sevdalis, N. , Koutantji, M., & Vincent, C. A. (2006). The complexity of measuring interprofessional teamwork in the operating theatre. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 20, 485-495.

Healey, A. N., Undre, S., & Vincent, C. A. (2006). Defining the technical skills of teamwork in surgery. Quality and Safety in Healthcare, 15, 231-234.

Sarker S.K., Chang, A., Vincent C., & Darzi A. (2006). Developing of assessing generic and specific technical skills in laparoscopic surgery. American Journal of Surgery, 191, 238-244.

Sevdalis, N., & Harvey, N. (2006). Predicting preferences: A neglected aspect of shared decision-making. Health Expectations, 9, 245-251.

Sevdalis, N., & McCulloch, P. (2006). Teaching evidence-based decision-making. Surgical Clinics of North America, 86, 59-70.

Tighe, C. M., Woloshynowych, M., Brown, R., Wears, R.L., & Vincent, C. A. (2006). Incident Reporting in one UK Accident and Emergency Department. Accident and Emergency Nursing, 14, 27-37

Undre, S., Sevdalis, N., Healey, A. N., Darzi, A., & Vincent, C. A. (2006). Teamwork in the operating theatre: Cohesion or confusion? Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 12, 182-189.

Wetzel, C. M., Kneebone, R., Woloshynowych, M., Nestel, D., Moorthy, K., Kidd, J., & Darzi, A. (2006).The effects of stress on surgical performance. American Journal of Surgery, 191, 5-10.

Koutantji, M., Davis, R., Vincent, C. A., & Coulter, A. (2005). The patient's role in patient safety: Engaging patients, their representatives, and health professionals. Clinical Risk, 11, 99-104.

Neale, G. (2005). Are the risks of hospital practice adequately recognised by incident reporting? Quality and Safety in Health Care, 14, 78-79.

Neale, G., & Olsen, S. (2005). Will the lead clinician please stand up? We should be promoting total quality care. BMJ, 330, 966.

Olsen, S., & Neale, G. (2005). Clinical leadership in the provision of hospital care: Must be improved to reduce basic errors in clinical care. BMJ, 330, 1219-1220.

Ramjeet, R.,Koutantji, M., Pearce, S., Barrett, E. M., & Scott, D. G. I. (2005). Coping and psychological adjustment in recent onset inflammatory polyarthritis: The role of gender and age. Rheumatology, 44, 1166-8.

Sarker, S. K., Chang, A., Vincent, C. A., & Darzi, A. (2005). Fluctuation of technical errors in laparoscopic cholecystectomies performed by consultant surgeons. Surgical Endoscopy, 19, 832-835.

Sarker, S. K., & Vincent, C. (2005). Errors in surgery. International Journal of Surgery, 3, 75-81.

Sarker S. K., Vincent C., & Darzi A. (2005). Assessing the teaching of technical skills. American Journal of Surgery, 189, 416-418.

Smith, J. R., Mildenhall, S., Noble, M., Shepstone, L., Koutantji, M., Mugford, .M, & Harrison, B. (2005). The Coping with Asthma Study: A randomised controlled trial of a home-based nurse intervention for adults at-risk of adverse asthma outcomes. Thorax, 60, 1003-11.  

Smith, J. R., Mugford, M., Holland, R., Noble, M., Harrison, B. D. W., Candy, B., Koutantji, M., Upton, C., & Harvey, I. (2005). A systematic review to examine the impact of psychoeducational interventions on health outcomes and costs in adults and children with difficult asthma. Health Technology Assessment, 9, 1-182.

Woloshynowych, M., Rogers, S., Taylor-Adams, S., & Vincent, C. A. (2005). The Investigation and Analysis of Critical Incidents and Adverse Events in Healthcare: a review of the literature. Health Technology Assessment, 9 (19).

Healey, A. N., Undre, S., & Vincent, C. A. (2004). Developing observational measures of performance in surgical teams. Quality & Safety in Health Care, 13 (Suppl. 1), i33-i40.

Lyons, M., Adams, S., Woloshynowych, M., & Vincent, C. A. (2004). Human reliability analysis in healthcare: A review of techniques. The International Journal of Risk and Safety in Medicine, 16, 223-237.

Sarker, S. K. (2004). Operative Surgical Safety – it's good to talk. Bulletin of the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow, 33, 2.

Vincent, C. A., Moorthy, K., Sarker, S. K., Chang, A., & Darzi, A. (2004). Systems approach to surgical quality and safety: from concepts to measurements. Annals of Surgery, 239, 475-482.

1999-2004 papers

M. Koutantji, E. Harrold , S. Pearce , S. Lane, R. Watts, D. G. I. Scott (2003). An investigation of quality of life, pain, disability and disease status in primary systemic vasculitis. Arthritis Rheum,  15:49 (6):826-37.

Sarker S.K. (2003). Courses, cadavers and counsellors &: Reducing errors in the operating theatre. British Medical Journal, 327, s109.

Vincent C. Compensation as a duty of care: the case for “no fault”. Qual Saf Health Care 2003; 12: 240–1

Whitmarsh, M. Koutantji & K. Sidell (2003). Illness perceptions, mood and coping in predicting attendance at cardiac rehabilitation. British Journal of Health Psychology, 8, 209-221.

Woloshynowych M, Neale G, Vincent C. Case record review of adverse events: a new approach, Quality and Safety in Health Care. 2003; 12(6):411-5

Vincent C. Understanding and responding to adverse events. New England Journal of Medicine. 2003; 348(11): 1051-6

Dean B, Schachter M, Vincent C, Barber N. Prescribing errors in hospital inpatients: their incidence and clinical significance. Quality and Safety in Health Care. 2002; 11(4): 340-4

Dean B; Schachter M; Vincent CA; Barber N; Causes of prescribing errors in hospital inpatients: a prospective study. The Lancet 2002; 359: 1373–8

Vincent C, Coulter A. Patient safety: What about the patient. Quality and Safety in Health Care. 2002; 11(1): 76-80

Vincent C; Taylor-Adams S; Chapman EJ; Hewett D; Strange P; Tizzard A. Comment enqueter sur des incidents cliniques et les analyses : protocole de l'unite des risques cliniques et de l'association de las gestion du contentieux et des risques. Ann Fr Anesth Reanim 2002; 21: 509–16.

Vincent CA; Wears RL. Communication in the emergency department: separating the signal from the noise. Medical Journal of Australia . 2002; 176: 409–10.

Beresford N, Seymour L, Vincent C, Moat N. The risks of elective cardiac surgery: what do patients want to know? Heart 2001; 86(6): 626-31

Neale G, Woloshynowych M, Vincent C. Exploring the causes of adverse events in NHS hospital practice. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 2001; 94: 322-30 (click here for the corresponding web page)

Vincent CA. Principles of risk and safety. Acta Neurochirurgica – supplement 2001; 78: 3 – 11.

Vincent CA. The safety of acupuncture. British Medical Journal 2001; 323:467-8.

Vincent C, Neale G, Woloshynowych M. Adverse events in British hospitals: preliminary retrospective record review. British Medical Journal 2001; 322: 517-9 (click here for the corresponding BMJ web page)

Vincent CA, Simon R, Sutcliffe K, Adams JG, Biros MH, Wears RL. Errors conference. Executive summary. Academic Emergency Medicine 2000; 7:1180-82.

Vincent CA, Stanhope N and Taylor-Adams S. Developing a systematic method of analysing serious incidents in mental health. Journal of Mental Health 2000; 9:89-103.

Vincent C, Taylor -Adams S, Chapman EJ, Hewett D, Prior S, Strange P and Tizzard A. How to investigate and analyse clinical incidents: Clinical Risk Unit and Association of Litigation and Risk Management protocol. British Medical Journal 2000; 320: 777-81.

Stanhope N, Crowley-Murphy M, Vincent C, O'Connor AM and Taylor-Adams SE. An evaluation of adverse incident reporting. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 1999; 5(1):5-12.

Taylor-Adams S, Vincent CA and Stanhope N. A method for analysing adverse events in medicine. Safety Science 1999; 31:143-159.

Vincent CA. The human element of adverse events (editorial). Medical Journal of Australia 1999; 170:404-405.

Vincent C, Stanhope N, Crowley-Murphy M. Reasons for not reporting adverse incidents: an empirical study. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 1999; 5(1):13-21.

Selected Pre-1999 Papers

Vincent CA, Adams S and Stanhope N. A framework for the analysis of risk and safety in medicine. British Medical Journal 1998; 316: 1154-1157. Full text available on bmj website

Vincent CA. Risk, safety and the dark side of quality. British Medical Journal 1997; 314: 1775-6. Full text available on bmj website

Stanhope N, Vincent CA, Adams S, O'Connor A and Beard RW. Applying human factors methods to clinical risk management in obstetrics. British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 1997; 104: 1225-1232.

Bark P, Vincent CA, Olivieri L and Jones A. Impact of litigation on senior clinicians: implications for risk management. Quality in Health Care 1997; 6: 7-13.

Church J and Vincent CA. Psychological consequences of medical accidents in personal litigants. British Journal of Health Psychology 1996; 1: 167-79.

Vincent CA, Young M and Phillips A. Why do people sue their doctors? A study of patients and relatives taking legal action. Lancet 1994; 343: 1609-13.

Bark P, Vincent C, Jones A and Savory J. Clinical complaints: a means of improving quality of care. Quality in Health Care 1994; 3: 123-32.

McManus IC, Vincent CA, Thom S and Kidd J. Teaching communication skills to clinical students. British Medical Journal 1993; 306: 1322-7. (Also translated into Italian. Medic 1994; 2: 205-12).

Vincent CA, Pincus T and Scurr JH. Patients' experience of surgical accidents. Quality in Health Care 1993; 2 (2): 77-82.

Driscoll PA and Vincent CA. Variation in trauma resuscitation and its effect on patient outcome. Injury 1992; 23: 111-5.

Driscoll PA and Vincent CA. Organizing an efficient trauma team. Injury 1992; 23: 107-10.

Vincent CA, Martin T and Ennis M. Obstetric accidents: the patient's perspective. British Journal of Obstetrics 1991; 98: 390-5.

Ennis M and Vincent CA. Obstetric accidents: a review of 64 cases. British Medical Journal 1990; 300: 1365-7.

Vincent CA. Research into medical accidents: a case of negligence? British Medical Journal 1989; 299: 1150-3.