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ReviewHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Situational Awareness in the Context of Clinical Practice.

Shani Feller, Liviu Feller, Ahmed Bhayat, Gal Feller, Razia Abdool Gafaar Khammissa, Zunaid Ismail Vally

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Review in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Shani FellerUniversity of Witwatersrand, Fir Avenue, Bantry Bay, Cape Town 2050, South Africa.
Liviu FellerUniversity of Witwatersrand, Fir Avenue, Bantry Bay, Cape Town 2050, South Africa.
Ahmed BhayatDepartment of Community Dentistry, School of Dentistry, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0084, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-8103-1233
Gal FellerDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital, Johannesburg 2193, South Africa.
Razia Abdool Gafaar KhammissaDepartment of Periodontics and Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0084, South Africa.
Zunaid Ismail VallyDepartment of Prosthodontics, School of Dentistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0084, South Africa.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the context of clinical practice, situational awareness refers to conscious awareness (knowledge), which is a mental model of a given clinical situation in terms of its elements and the significance of their interrelation. Situational awareness (SA) facilitates clinical reasoning, diagnostic accuracy, and appropriate goal-directed performance, and it enables clinicians to immediately adapt treatment strategies in response to changes in clinical situational actualities and to modify the course of goal-directed activities accordingly. It also helps clinicians prepare future operational plans and procedures based on the projection of situational developments. SA, therefore, is an important prerequisite for safe clinical procedures. The purpose of this narrative review is to highlight certain cognitive and external (environmental) situational factors that influence the development of situational awareness. Understanding the dynamic, adaptive, and complex interactions between these factors may assist clinicians and managers of healthcare systems in developing methods aimed at facilitating the acquisition of accurate clinical situational awareness and, in turn, may bring about a reduction in the incidence of SA, diagnostic, and operational errors.

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clinical judgementclinical reasoningdecision makingelectronic health recordsinformation processingmental modelspattern recognitionsituational awareness

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PMID38063666
PMCPMC10706218

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