OR black box: could recorded surgeries boost team wellbeing?
NCT ID NCT07396675
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jul 24, 2026 · Updated 2 times
Summary
This study tests whether using audio and video recordings from an Operating Room Black Box during team debriefings helps reduce stress and improve teamwork among operating room staff. About 135 healthcare workers from three hospitals will be split into two groups: one using standard debriefings and one using video-assisted debriefings. The goal is to see if the extra data makes debriefings more useful and boosts psychological safety.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Debriefing (behavioral intervention)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could show that video-assisted debriefings improve teamwork and reduce burnout among operating room staff.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, early-stage study (135 participants) comparing two debriefing methods, so results may not apply broadly. The intervention is behavioral, not a treatment, so impact is limited.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 135 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Mar 2026
- Expected to finish
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Oct 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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A research network
The lead sponsor is a research network or cooperative group.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Participants work in an OR-team at RIGS, AUMC or UKE. * Participants must have given informed written consent to participate in the study. * Participants must be in the OR for the majority of the procedure or/and have a central role in the teamwork. * At RIGS and AUMC participants for the ORBB debriefings must also be part of teams conducting surgeries in the OR where ORBB is installed (not all ORs have ORBB). * Participants can either be surgeons, anesthesiologist, anesthesia nurses, residents, OR-nurses, perfusionists, interns, nurse students or other OR-staff. Exclusion Criteria: * Visitors, guests, and other staff only watching the surgery, are excluded from participation. * Individuals who are unable or unwilling to provide written informed consent.
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Conditions
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As listed by the trial registrant
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How to take part
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The places running it
3 sites in 3 countries. The list below names each one and where it is.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Amsterdam University Medical Center (Amsterdam UMC)
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGAmsterdam, Netherlands
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Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark
RECRUITINGCopenhagen, 2100, Denmark
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University Hospital UKE
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGHamburg, Germany
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