WASHINGTON — Eleven-year-old Kelly K. Spencer put on her gloves, apron and face mask as she prepared to enter the hospital operating room in 2000. This wasn’t your typical take-a-child-to-work ...

The study involved operating room personnel at 60 hospitals and a Safety Attitudes Questionnaire. OR surgeons, anesthesiologists, certified registered nurse anesthetists and operating room nurses ...

But one nurse recalled an instance where he went into the operating room “ready to go” but “no team [was] available.” He also contends elective surgeries have been postponed.