Acknowledging the need to improve team communication and coordination among health care providers, health care administrators and improvement officers have been quick to endorse and invest in aviation crew resource management (CRM). Despite the increased interest in CRM there exists limited data on the effectiveness of CRM to change team behavior and performance in clinical settings.
Department of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Medical Arts Building, Suite 732, Nashville, TN 37212-1212, USA. dan.france@vanderbilt.edu
