Publications
In Press
Azuara-Blanco, A., Reddy, A., Wilkinson, G. & Flin, R. (in press). Safe eye surgery: non-technical aspects. EYE.
Barnett, K., McCowan, C., Evans, J., Gillespie, N., Davey, P. & Fahey, T. (in press). Prevalence and outcomes of potentially inappropriate medicines use in the elderly: cohort study stratified by residence in nursing home or in the community. BMJ Quality and Safety.
Charles, K., McKee, L. & McCann, S. (in press). A quest for patient-safe culture: contextual influences on patient safety performance. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy.
Glavin, R. & Flin, R. (in press). The influence of psychology and human factors to education in anaesthesiology. Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia.
Hogg, G., Stewart, F. & Ker, J. (in press). Over the counter clinical skills: enhancing the profile of the pharmacists' role through safe acquisition of clinical assessment skills. Clinical Teacher.
Irwin, A., Ross, J., Seaton, J. & Mearns, K. (in press). Restrospective analysis of DATIX dispensing error reports from Scottish NHS hospitals. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice.
Irwin, Laing & Mearns (in press). Dealing with aggressive methadone patients in community pharmacy: a critical incident study. Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy.
Kelly, D., Lough, M. Rushmer, R.K., Wilkinson, J.E,, Greig, G. & Davies, H.T.O (in press). Diagnosing a learning practice: the validity and reliability of a Learning Practice Inventory (LPI). BMJ Quality & Safety.
Konteh, F.H., Mannion, R. & Davies, H.T.O. (in press). Understanding culture and culture management in the English NHS: a comparison of professional and patient perspectives. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice.
Mitchell, L., Flin, R., Yule, S., Mitchell, J., Coutts, K. & Youngson, G. (in press). Development of a behavioural marker system for scrub practitioners' non-technical skills. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice.
Raduma-Tomas, Flin, Yule & Close (in press). HTA of doctors' shift handovers. BMJ Quality and Safety.
Runciman, Flin et al. (in press). Ontology of patient safety. QSHC.
2012
Mitchell, L., Flin, R., Yule, S., Mitchell, J., Coutts, K. & Youngson, G. (2012). Evaluation of the Scrub Practitioners' List of Intraoperative Non-Technical Skills (SPLINTS) system. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 49, 201-211.
2011
Arfanis, K., Fioratou, E. & Smith, A. (2011). Safety culture in anaesthesiology: Basic concepts and practical application. Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology, 25, 229-238.
Charles, K., McKee, L. & McCann, S. (in press). 'Patient Safety: whose vision? (2011) In: Dickinson, H. & Mannion, S, Proceedings of the 7th Biennial International Conference in Organiational Behaviour in Health Care, London, Palgrave-Macmillan.
Fioratou, E., Pauley, K. & Flin, R. (2011). Critical thinking in the operating theatre. Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, 12, 241-255.
Flin, R. & Patey, R. (2011). Non-technical skills for anaesthetists: developing and applying ANTS. Best Practice and Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology, 25, 215-227.
Henrickson Parker, S., Yule, S., Flin, R. & McKinley, A. (2011). Towards a model of surgeons' leadership in the operating room. BMJ Quality & Safety, 20, 570-579.
Johnston, P.W., Fioratou, E. & Flin, R. (2011). Non-technical skills in histopathology: definition and discussion. Histopathology, 59 (3), 359-367.
Mitchell, L., Flin, R., Yule, S., Mitchell, J., Coutts, K. & Youngson G. (2011). Thinking ahead of the surgeon - An interview study to identify scrub practitioners' non-technical skills. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 48, 818-828.
Pauley, K., Flin, R., Yule, S. & Youngson, G. (2011). Surgeons' intraoperative decision making and risk management. American Journal of Surgery, 202, 375-381.
Raduma-Tomàs, M.A., Flin, R., Yule, S. & Williams, D. (2011). Doctors' handovers in hospitals: A literature review. Quality and Safety in Healthcare, 20,128-133.
Reader, T., Flin, R. & Cuthbertson B. (2011). Team leadership in the Intensive Care Unit: The perspective of specialists. Critical Care Medicine 39, 1683-1691.
Reader, T., Flin, R., Mearns, K. & Cuthbertson B. ( 2011). Team situation awareness in the Intensive Care Unit. BMJ Quality & Safety.
Sarac, C., Flin, R., Mearns, K, & Jackson, J. (2011). Hospital survey on patient safety culture: Psychometric analysis on a Scottish sample. BMJ Quality & Safety, 20, 842-848.
Shields, W. (2011). Paramedic non-technical skills: Aviation style behavioural rating systems. Journal of Paramedic Practice, 3, 676-680.
2010
Boyd, S., Aggarwal, I. Davey, P., Logan, M. & Nathwani, D. (2010). Peripheral intravenous catheters: the road to quality improvement and safer patient care. J. Hosp Infect doi 10.1016/j.jhin.2010.09.01.
de Kraker, M.E., Wolkewitz, M., Davey, P.G. et al. (2010). Burden of antimicrobial resistance in European hospitals: excess mortality and length of hospital stay asociated with bloodstream infections due to Escherichia coli resistant to third-generation cephalosporins. J Antimicrob Chemother doi 10.1093/jac/dkq412.
Fioratou, E., Flin, R., Glavin, R. & Patey, R. (2010). Beyond monitoring: distributed situation awareness in anaesthesia. British Journal of Anaesthesia, 105, 83-90.
Flin, R. (2010). CRM (non-technical) skills Applications for and beyond the flight deck. In R. Helmreich, B. Kanki & J Anca (Eds) Crew Resource Managment (2nd Ed). New York: Elsevier
Fioratou, E., Flin, R., & Glavin, R. (2010). No simple fix for fixation errors: cognitive processes and their clinical applications. Anaesthesia, 65, 61-69.
Flin, R., Patey, R., Glavin, R. & Maran, N. (2010). Anaesthetists' non-technical skills.(ANTS). British Journal of Anaesthesia, 105, 38-44.
Guthrie, B., Clark, S. & McCowan, C. (2010). The burden of psychotropic drug prescribing in people with dementia: a population database study. Age Ageing 39 (5): 637-642.
Henrickson Parker, S., Laviana, A., Wadhera, R., Wiegmann, D.& Sundt, T.M. (2010). Development and evaluation of an observational tool for assessing surgical flow disruptions and their impact on surgical performance. World Journal of Surgery 34 (2), 353-361.
Jackson, J., Sarac, C. & Flin, R. (2010). Hospital safety climate surveys: measurement issues. Current Opinion in Critical Care, 16, 632-638.
Jarvis, R., Snadden, D. & Ker, J. (2010). Communication skills. In Dent & R. Harden Practical guide for medical teachers 3rd edition Churchill Livingston.
McKee, L., West, M., Flin, R., Grant, A., Johnston, D., Jones, M., Miles, C., Charles, K., Dawson, J., McCann, S. & Yule, S. (2010). Understanding the dynamics of organisational culture change: creating safe places for patients and staff. SDO Grant Report. Link to report.
Marwick, C., Broomhall, J., McCowan, C., Philips, G., Gonzalez-McQuire, S., Akhras, K., Merchant, S., Nathwani, D., Davey, P. (2010). Severity assessment of skin and soft tissue infections: cohort study of management and outcomes for hospitalised patients. J. Antimicrob Chemother doi 10.1093/jac/dkq362.
Mitchell, L. (2010). Is it time to integrate non-technical skills and other human factors into perioperative training programmes? Journal of Perioperative Practice, 20, 9, 314.
Steed, H. Groome, M., Rice, P., Simpson, K., Day, A. & Ker, J. (2010). Evaluation of a new core curriculum on alcohol use disorders for undergraduate medical students. Alcohol 45 (4): 395-397.
Tully (2010). Managing Incident Reviews. An online course to support Final Year medical students at University of Dundee who are reviewing medication incidents and prescribing errors http://medblogs.dundee.ac.uk/dundeerhic/undergraduate-teaching/managing-incident-review/introduction/
Wadhera, R., Henrickson Parker, S., Burkhart, H., Greason, K., Neal, J., Levenick, K. & Sundt, T.M.(2010). Is the "sterile cockpit" concept applicable to cardiovascular surgery critical intervals or critical events? The impact of protocol-driven communication during cardiopulmonary bypass. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 139, 312-19.
Walshe, K. & Davies, H.T.O. (2010). Research, influence and impact: deconstructing the norms of health services research commissioning. Policy & Society: 29 (2), 103-11.
Wolkewitz, M., Frank, U., Philips, G., Schumacher, M. & Davey, P. (2010). Mortality associated with in-hospital bacteraemia caused by Staphylococcus aureus: a multistate analysis with follow-up beyond hospital discharge. J. Antimicrob Chemother doi 10.1093/jac/dkq424.
Youngson, G. & Flin, R. (2010). Editorial: Patient safety in surgery: non-technical aspects of safe surgical performance. Patient Safety in Surgery, 2010, 4:4.
2009
Arnold, J., Johnson, L., Tucker, S., Malec, J., Henrickson, S. & Dunn, W. (2009). Evaluation tools in simulation learning: Performance and self-efficacy in emergency response. Clinical Simulation in Nursing 5 (1), e35-e43.
Bromiley, M. & Mitchell, L. (2009). Would you speak up if the consultant got it wrong?...and would you listen if someone said you'd got it wrong? Journal of Perioperative Practice, Safer Surgery Special Issue, 19, 326-329. Download pdf article.
Burkhart, H., Riley, J., Henrickson Parker, S., Glenn, G., Lynch, J., Arnold, J., Dearani, J, Schaff, H. & Sundt, T. (2009). The successful application of simulation-based training in thoracic surgery residency. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.
Flin, R. & Patey, R. (2009). Editorial: Improving patient safety through training in non-technical skills. BMJ, 339:b3595. Download article
Flin, R. & Mitchell, L. (Eds) (2009). Safer Surgery. Analysing Behaviour in the Operating Theatre. Farnham: Ashgate.
Flin, R., Patey, R., Jackson, J., Mearns, K. & Dissanayaka, U. (2009). First year medical undergraduates' knowledge of and attitudes to medical error. Medical Education, 43, 1147-1155.
Flin, R., Winter, J., Sarac, C. & Raduma M. (2009). Human Factors in Patient Safety: Review of Topics and Tools. Report for Methods and Measures Working Group of WHO Patient Safety. Geneva: World Health Organization. Download pdf article.
Greene, Guthrie et al (2009, in press). Quality and Safety in Health Care.
Henrickson Parker, S., Wadhera, R., ElBardissi, A., Wiegmann, D. & Sundt, T. (2009). A human factors analysis of cardiopulmonary bypass machines and associated components and procedures. Journal of Extracorporeal Technology, 41 (2), 57-64.
Henrickson Parker, S., Schnell, J., White, A. (2009). Basics of human factors and patient safety. OR Nurse, 3 (3), 6-9.
Reader, Flin, Mearns & Cuthbertson (2009). Developing a team performance framework for the Intensive Care Unit, Critical Care Medicine, 37 (5), 1787-93. Download pdf article.
Yule, S., Rowley, D., Flin, R., Maran, N., Youngson, G., Duncan, J. & Paterson-Brown, S. (2009). Experience matters: comparing novice and expert ratings of non-technical skills using the NOTSS system. ANZ Journal of Surgery, 79, 154-160. Download pdf article.
2008
Baldie, D., Entwistle, V. & Davey, P. (2008). The information and support needs of patients discharged after a short hospital stay for treatment of low-risk Community Acquired Pneumonia: implications for treatment without admission. BMC Pulmonary Medicine; 8: 11.
Barlow, G., Nathwani, D., Myers, E. et al.(2008). Identifying barriers to the rapid administration of appropriate antibiotics in community-acquired pneumonia. J Antimicrob Chemo; 61: 442-51.
Burnett, E., Phillips, G., Ker, J.S. (2008). From theory to practice in learning about healthcare associated infections: reliable assessment of final year medical students' ability to reflect. Med Teach; 30: e157-60.
Davey, P.G. & Marwick, C. (2008). Appropriate vs. inappropriate antimicrobial therapy. Clinical Microbiology and Infection; 14: 15-21.
Engle, N., Patey R. et al. (2008). Non-technical skills. Student BMJ, 16, 454-455.
Evans, J.M., Guthrie, B, Pagliari, C. et al. Do general practice characteristics influence uptake of an information technology (IT) innovation in primary care? Inform Prim Care 2008; 16: 3-8.
Flin, R. et al (2008). Safety at the Sharp End. A Guide to Non-Technical Skills. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Guthrie, B., Saultz, J., Freeman, G. et al. (2008). Continuity of care matters. BMJ; 337: 548-9.
Guthrie, B. (2008). Measuring the quality of healthcare systems using composites. BMJ; 337: 418-9.
Hogg, Lorente, Keith, Ramsay, Ambrose, Owen & Ker (2008). The evaluation of a ward simulation exercise to support hospital at night practitioners develop safe practice Int J Clin Skills 2 , 112-117
Hopf, Y., Watson, M.C., Williams, D. (2008). Adverse-drug-reaction related admissions to a hospital in the North-East of Scotland. Pharm World Sci ;30:854-862.
Huby, Guthrie et al (2008). Journal of Health Organization and Management 22(1): 63-78.
Ker, J., Cantillon, P.,& Ambrose, L. Teaching on a ward round. BMJ 2008; 337: a1930.
McMurdo, Davey et al (2008). Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy .: dkn489.
Mitchell & Flin (2008). Non-technical skills of the operating theatre scrub nurse. A literature review. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 63, 15-24.
Neville, R.G., Reed, C., Boswell, B, et al. (2008). Early experience of the use of short message service (SMS) technology in routine clinical care. Inform Prim Care, 16: 203-11.
Owen, L., Byrne, D.& Ker, J. (2008). A learning package for medical students in a busy urology department: design, implementation, and evaluation. Urology, 72, 982-6.
Owen, Byrne & Ker (2008). How useful is simulation in preparing students for practice in the ambulatory care setting? Int J Clin Skills, 2 ,17-20
Pulcini, C., Defres. S., Aggarwal, I. et al.(2008). Design of a 'day 3 bundle' to improve the reassessment of inpatient empirical antibiotic prescriptions. J Antimicrob Chemoth; 61: 1384-8.
Ramsay, J., Keith, G.& Ker, J.S. Use of simulated patients for a communication skills exercise. Nurs Stand 2008; 22: 39-44.
Shepherd, Ambrose, Somerville & Ker (2008). Medical undergraduates' competence and confidence in Basic Life Support Skills Int J Clin Skills, 2, 30-34
Williams, D., Olsen, S., et al (2008). Detection of adverse events in a Scottish hospital using a consensus-based methodology. Scottish Medical Journal, 53, 26-30. Download pdf article.
Yule, Flin et al (2008). Surgeons’ non-technical skills in the operating room. Reliability testing of the NOTSS behaviour rating system. World Journal of Surgery, 32, 548-556.
Yule, Flin, Rowley, Mitchell, Youngson et al.(2008). Debriefing surgical trainees on non-technical skills (NOTSS) Cognition, Technology & Work, 10, 265-274.
