A Survey of Healthcare Team Work and its Related Factors in Operating Room

Effective healthcare team among healthcare providers is important to improve the quality of services and to provide safe and effective care. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the of healthcare team work and its related factors in operating room

Methods and Materials:

 The current study is a descriptive-analytic study and the study population consisted of 217 healthcare providers who work in operating rooms of nine educational hospitals in Isfahan, Iran. For gathering data in this study, two assessment tools including a researcher designed questionnaire and a Team Assessment Questionnaire (TAQ) had been used. Finally, healthcare providers were divided into five groups according to the scoring system.

From 217 samples, 132 were female and 85 were male. The mean of age were 34.9 respectively. The mean score of the teamwork in this study was 194.67 ± 2.05; which according to the scoring system of questionnaire it was considered strong for this study.

Healthcare providers in the operating rooms mostly had a strong or relatively strong teamwork score. But the difference between the various groups inside operating room team represents different perception about the healthcare team behaviors. The results of this study also indicated that the advancement of technology, learning new methods and rewards system are factors influencing the teamwork in the operating room