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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 17.
Published in final edited form as: J Surg Res. 2012 May 4;177(1):37–42. doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2012.04.029

Table 2.

Discussion content of communication failures.

Discussion topic Number of communication events Number of communication failures (% of events)
Chitchat 95
Equipment 743 61 (8.2)
Environment 55 4 (7.3)
Medications 140 15 (10.7)
Other patients 90 14 (15.6)
Personnel 108 19 (17.6)
Policy 116 24 (20.7)
Procedure 632 42 (6.7)
Progress report 255 14 (5.5)

Note: Discussion topics are not mutually exclusive.