Paper Reviews
The gap between research and practice is one of the most persistent problems in medicine.
Important findings sit behind paywalls, are buried in academic language, are read by specialists, and are translated into the everyday reality of clinical work only rarely. Meanwhile, the people who could benefit most — clinicians, team leaders, educators — are too busy to wade through them.
That is what this page is for.
Here I review papers that I find genuinely useful — on team performance, human factors, patient safety, leadership, debriefing, and organisational resilience. Each review is written for someone who works in a complex environment and wants to understand what the research actually says — without needing a methodologist's vocabulary to follow along.
I try to be honest about what the evidence shows, where it is strong, and where it has limitations. A paper worth reading is not always about being right or finding some grown truth. Part of engaging seriously with research is learning the nuances, the tensions, the debates, and exploring perspectives.
These reviews reflect my own reading, interpretations, and my own perspective. They are not systematic reviews or meta-analyses. They are the notes of a clinician and human factors student who reads widely and thinks that sharing what I find is more useful than keeping it to myself.
If you have a paper you think belongs here — something that changed how you think about teams, safety, or performance — I would genuinely like to hear about it. Reach out at hello@mindtheteam.com
