Joaquim Havens, MD
Director of Emergency General Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Joaquim Havens MD, is investigating the burden of emergency general surgery in the United States. He has developed and tested the use of an emergency general surgery checklist and intra-operative huddle under a grant from CRICO. In collaboration with Johnson and Johnson he has helped develop a Device Briefing Tool which has been pilot tested in Thailand and is currently being tested throughout Singapore.
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Going beyond compliance: A qualitative study of the practice of surgical safety checklist
Singapore General Hospital’s published results in Social Science and Medicine on our collaboration looking to go beyond assessing checklist compliance and to better understand potential sociopsychological mechanisms of the variations in SSC practices.
Feb 25 2024

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Training novice raters to assess nontechnical skills of operating room teams
Aug 13 2020