Amy Edmondson

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Hidden Brain · Making the Most of Your Mistakes · 3 Aug 2026 podcast

So in a good team, in a well-led team,

they tend to be high on all of these factors.

And a not good team, they're low on all of these factors.

Well, my intuition was that better teamwork would lead to fewer mistakes or adverse events for patients.

This just makes sense.

And the more I understood about the nature of patient care in a hospital, the more I realized how...

interdependent it was.

First of all, it's 24-7 operations.

So there's shift handoffs.

And second of all, most patients are seen by multiple different caregivers through the course of their stay.

And so the quality of the coordination and the collaboration ought to really determine the degree to which high quality care is given.

So of course, I expected better teams would have

fewer adverse events or mistakes.

Well,

I synced up the data on the disk with the data that I already had on the team properties in my computer and started to run the statistical analysis to connect those two data sources and

I just ran some simple correlations and I saw right away that the p-value, which indicates whether or not the finding is statistically significant, I saw that the p-value indicated that my data were statistically significant.

So I was very excited.

And then I looked more closely, leaning into the screen, and I realized that the

sign was in the wrong direction.

In other words, instead of seeing a relationship between good teamwork and low error rates, the statistical significance was saying there was a relationship between good teamwork and high error rates.

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