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Letter to the editor| Volume 58, ISSUE 7, P873-874, September 2020

Re: What can we do to improve individual and team situational awareness to benefit patient safety?

      Bringing the topic of Situational Awareness (SA)
      • Brennan P.A.
      • Holden C.
      • Shaw G.
      • Morris S.
      • Oeppen R.S.
      Leading article: What can we do to improve individual and team situational awareness to benefit patient safety?.
      and human error in maxillofacial surgery in conjunction with aviation Crew Resource Management (CRM) principles
      • Seager L.
      • Smith D.W.
      • Patel A.
      • Brunt H.
      • Brennan P.A.
      Applying aviation factors to oral and maxillofacial surgery – the human element.
      to the forefront is appreciated at this time of pandemic. Preventing human error in a systematic and phasic approach, that has been applied in airline crew philosophies since 1979
      • Seager L.
      • Smith D.W.
      • Patel A.
      • Brunt H.
      • Brennan P.A.
      Applying aviation factors to oral and maxillofacial surgery – the human element.
      carries remarkably well into our healthcare profession of dentistry,
      • Pinsky H.M.
      • Taichman R.S.
      • Sarment D.P.
      Adaptation of airline crew resource management principles to dentistry.
      medicine, and surgery.
      • Wakeman D.
      • Langham M.R.
      Creating a safer operating room: Groups, team dynamics and crew resource management principles.

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