Our publications 1999 to 2007
2004 - 2007 papers
Aggarwal R; Undre S; Moorthy K; Vincent C; Darzi A. The simulated operating theatre: comprehensive training for surgical teams. Qual Saf Health Care. 2004 13:I27-I32
Benn J; Healey AN; Hollnagel E. Improving performance reliability in surgical systems. Cognition, Technology and Work. 2007; 10:323-333
Healey AN; Olsen S; Davis RE; Vincent CA. A method for measuring work interference in surgical teams. Cognition, Technology and Work 2007
Healey, A. N., Primus, C. P., & Koutantji, M. (in press). Quantifying distraction and interruption in urological surgery. Quality and Safety in Health Care.
Healey AN; Vincent CA. The systems of surgery. Theoretical Issues in Ergonomic Science. 2007; 1, 9:1-15.
Healey, A. N., Sevdalis, N. , & Vincent, C. A. (2006). Measuring intraoperative interference from distraction and interruption observed in the operating theatre. Ergonomics, 49, 589-604.
Healey, A. N., Undre, S., Sevdalis, N. , Koutantji, M., & Vincent, C. A. (2006). The complexity of measuring interprofessional teamwork in the operating theatre. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 20, 485-495.
Healey, A. N., Undre, S., & Vincent, C. A. (2006). Defining the technical skills of teamwork in surgery. Quality and Safety in Healthcare, 15, 231-234.
Healey, A. N., Undre, S., & Vincent, C. A. (2004). Developing observational measures of performance in surgical teams. Quality & Safety in Health Care, 13 (Suppl. 1), i33-i40.
Koutantji, M., Davis, R., Vincent, C. A., & Coulter, A. (2005). The patient's role in patient safety: Engaging patients, their representatives, and health professionals. Clinical Risk, 11, 99-104.
Lyons, M., Adams, S., Woloshynowych, M., & Vincent, C. A. (2004). Human reliability analysis in healthcare: A review of techniques. The International Journal of Risk and Safety in Medicine, 16, 223-237.
Moorthy K; Munz Y; Adams S; Pandey V; Darzi A; Imperial College--St. Mary's Hospital Simulation Group. Self-assessment of performance among surgical trainees during simulated procedures in a simulated operating theater. Am J Surg. 2006; 192:114-118.
Moorthy K; Munz Y; Forrest D; Pandey V; Undre S; Vincent C; Darzi A. Surgical crisis management skills training and assessment: a simulation[corrected]-based approach to enhancing operating room performance. Ann Surg. 2006; 244:139-147
Moorthy K; Munz Y; Adams S; Pandey V; Darzi A. A human factors analysis of technical and team skills among surgical trainees during procedural simulations in a simulated operating theatre. Ann Surg. 2005 242:631-639.
Neale G, Vincent C, Darzi A, The problem of engaging hospital doctors in promoting safety and quality in clinical care. J R Soc Prom Health 2007; 127: 87-94.
Neale G, Chapman EJ, Hoare J, Olsen S. Recognising adverse events and critical incidents in medical practice in a district general hospital. Clin Med. 2006; 6(2):157-62
Neale G, Olsen S. Rise and demise of the hospital: managing hospital inpatient care BMJ. 2006;7;332(7532):52
Neale, G. (2005). Are the risks of hospital practice adequately recognised by incident reporting? Quality and Safety in Health Care, 14, 78-79.
Neale, G., & Olsen, S. (2005). Will the lead clinician please stand up? We should be promoting total quality care. BMJ, 330, 966.
Olsen S, Neale G, Schwab K, Psaila B, Patel T, Chapman EJ, Vincent C. Hospital staff should use more than one method to detect adverse events and potential adverse events: incident reporting, pharmacist surveillance and local real-time record review may all have a place. Qual Saf Health Care 2007; 16(1):40-4.
Olsen, S., & Neale, G. (2005). Clinical leadership in the provision of hospital care: Must be improved to reduce basic errors in clinical care. BMJ, 330, 1219-1220.
Primus CP; Healey AN; Undre S. Distraction in the urology operating theatre. BJU Int. 2007 99:493-494.
Ramjeet, R.,Koutantji, M., Pearce, S., Barrett, E. M., & Scott, D. G. I. (2005). Coping and psychological adjustment in recent onset inflammatory polyarthritis: The role of gender and age. Rheumatology, 44, 1166-8.
Sarker S.K., Chang, A., Vincent C., & Darzi A. (2006). Developing of assessing generic and specific technical skills in laparoscopic surgery. American Journal of Surgery, 191, 238-244
Sarker, S. K., Chang, A., Vincent, C. A., & Darzi, A. (2005). Fluctuation of technical errors in laparoscopic cholecystectomies performed by consultant surgeons. Surgical Endoscopy, 19, 832-835.
Sarker, S. K., & Vincent, C. (2005). Errors in surgery. International Journal of Surgery, 3, 75-81.
Sarker S. K., Vincent C., & Darzi A. (2005). Assessing the teaching of technical skills. American Journal of Surgery, 189, 416-418.
Sarker, S. K. (2004). Operative Surgical Safety – it's good to talk. Bulletin of the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow, 33, 2.
Sevdalis N; Healey AN; Vincent CA. Distracting communications in the operating theatre. J Eval Clin Pract. 2007 13:390-394.
Sevdalis, N., & Harvey, N. (2006). Predicting preferences: A neglected aspect of shared decision-making. Health Expectations, 9, 245-251.
Sevdalis, N., & McCulloch, P. (2006). Teaching evidence-based decision-making. Surgical Clinics of North America, 86, 59-70.
Smith, J. R., Mildenhall, S., Noble, M., Shepstone, L., Koutantji, M., Mugford, .M, & Harrison, B. (2005). The Coping with Asthma Study: A randomised controlled trial of a home-based nurse intervention for adults at-risk of adverse asthma outcomes. Thorax, 60, 1003-11.
Smith, J. R., Mugford, M., Holland, R., Noble, M., Harrison, B. D. W., Candy, B., Koutantji, M., Upton, C., & Harvey, I. (2005). A systematic review to examine the impact of psychoeducational interventions on health outcomes and costs in adults and children with difficult asthma. Health Technology Assessment, 9, 1-182.
Taylor-Adams S; Vincent CA. Systems Analysis of Clinical Incidents: The London Protocol. London Protocol 
Tighe, C. M., Woloshynowych, M., Brown, R., Wears, R.L., & Vincent, C. A. (2006). Incident Reporting in one UK Accident and Emergency Department. Accident and Emergency Nursing, 14, 27-37
Undre S; Koutantji M; Sevdalis N; Gautama S; Selvapatt N; Williams S; Sains P; McCulloch P; Darzi A; Vincent C. Multidisciplinary crisis simulations: the way forward for training surgical teams. World J Surg. 2007; 31:1843-1853.
Undre S; Sevdalis N; Healey AN; Darzi A; Vincent CA. Observational teamwork assessment for surgery (OTAS): refinement and application in urological surgery. World J Surg. 2007 31:1373-1381.
Undre S; Healey AN; Darzi A; Vincent CA. Observational assessment of surgical teamwork: a feasibility study. World J Surg. 2006 30:1774-1783
Undre, S., Sevdalis, N., Healey, A. N., Darzi, A., & Vincent, C. A. (2006). Teamwork in the operating theatre: Cohesion or confusion? Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 12, 182-189.
Vincent CA; Lee AC; Hanna GB. Patient safety alerts: a balance between evidence and action. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed. 2006 91:314-F315
Vincent, C. A., Moorthy, K., Sarker, S. K., Chang, A., & Darzi, A. (2004). Systems approach to surgical quality and safety: from concepts to measurements. Annals of Surgery, 239, 475-482.
Wetzel, C. M., Kneebone, R., Woloshynowych, M., Nestel, D., Moorthy, K., Kidd, J., & Darzi, A. (2006).The effects of stress on surgical performance. American Journal of Surgery, 191, 5-10.
Woloshynowych M; Davis R; Brown R; Vincent C. Communication Patterns in a UK Emergency Department. Ann Emerg Med 2007; 50:407-413.
Woloshynowych, M., Rogers, S., Taylor-Adams, S., & Vincent, C. A. (2005). The Investigation and Analysis of Critical Incidents and Adverse Events in Healthcare: a review of the literature. Health Technology Assessment, 9 (19).
1999-2004 papers
Beresford N, Seymour L, Vincent C, Moat N. The risks of elective cardiac surgery: what do patients want to know? Heart 2001; 86(6): 626-31
Dean B, Schachter M, Vincent C, Barber N. Prescribing errors in hospital inpatients: their incidence and clinical significance. Quality and Safety in Health Care. 2002; 11(4): 340-4
Dean B; Schachter M; Vincent CA; Barber N; Causes of prescribing errors in hospital inpatients: a prospective study. The Lancet 2002; 359: 1373–8
M. Koutantji, E. Harrold , S. Pearce , S. Lane, R. Watts, D. G. I. Scott (2003). An investigation of quality of life, pain, disability and disease status in primary systemic vasculitis. Arthritis Rheum, 15:49 (6):826-37.
Neale G; Woloshynowych M. Retrospective case record review: a blunt instrument that needs sharpening. Qual Saf Health Care 2003; 12:2-3
Neale G, Woloshynowych M, Vincent C. Exploring the causes of adverse events in NHS hospital practice. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 2001; 94: 322-30
Sarker S.K. (2003). Courses, cadavers and counsellors &: Reducing errors in the operating theatre. British Medical Journal, 327, s109.
Stanhope N, Crowley-Murphy M, Vincent C, O'Connor AM and Taylor-Adams SE. An evaluation of adverse incident reporting. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 1999; 5(1):5-12.
Taylor-Adams S, Vincent CA and Stanhope N. A method for analysing adverse events in medicine. Safety Science 1999; 31:143-159.
Vincent C. Compensation as a duty of care: the case for “no fault”. Qual Saf Health Care 2003; 12: 240–1
Whitmarsh, M. Koutantji & K. Sidell (2003). Illness perceptions, mood and coping in predicting attendance at cardiac rehabilitation. British Journal of Health Psychology, 8, 209-221.
Woloshynowych M, Neale G, Vincent C. Case record review of adverse events: a new approach, Quality and Safety in Health Care. 2003; 12(6):411-5
Vincent C. Understanding and responding to adverse events. New England Journal of Medicine. 2003; 348(11): 1051-6
Vincent C. Compensation as a duty of care: the case for “no fault”. Qual Saf Health Care 2003; 12: 240–1
Vincent C, Coulter A. Patient safety: What about the patient. Quality and Safety in Health Care. 2002; 11(1): 76-80
Vincent C; Taylor-Adams S; Chapman EJ; Hewett D; Strange P; Tizzard A. Comment enqueter sur des incidents cliniques et les analyses : protocole de l'unite des risques cliniques et de l'association de las gestion du contentieux et des risques. Ann Fr Anesth Reanim 2002; 21: 509–16.
Vincent CA; Wears RL. Communication in the emergency department: separating the signal from the noise. Medical Journal of Australia . 2002; 176: 409–10.
Vincent CA. Principles of risk and safety. Acta Neurochirurgica – supplement 2001; 78: 3 – 11.
Vincent CA. The safety of acupuncture. British Medical Journal 2001; 323:467-8.
Vincent C, Neale G, Woloshynowych M. Adverse events in British hospitals: preliminary retrospective record review. British Medical Journal 2001; 322: 517-9 (click here for the corresponding BMJ web page)
Vincent CA, Simon R, Sutcliffe K, Adams JG, Biros MH, Wears RL. Errors conference. Executive summary. Academic Emergency Medicine 2000; 7:1180-82.
Vincent CA, Stanhope N and Taylor-Adams S. Developing a systematic method of analysing serious incidents in mental health. Journal of Mental Health 2000; 9:89-103.
Vincent C, Taylor -Adams S, Chapman EJ, Hewett D, Prior S, Strange P and Tizzard A. How to investigate and analyse clinical incidents: Clinical Risk Unit and Association of Litigation and Risk Management protocol. British Medical Journal 2000; 320: 777-81.
Vincent CA. The human element of adverse events (editorial). Medical Journal of Australia 1999; 170:404-405.
Vincent C, Stanhope N, Crowley-Murphy M. Reasons for not reporting adverse incidents: an empirical study. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 1999; 5(1):13-21.


