A new instrument to assess physician skill at chest tube insertion: the TUBE-iCOMPT: Figure 1

Currently no tool exists to assess proceduralist skill at chest tube insertion. As inadequate doctor procedural competence has repeatedly been associated with adverse events, there is a need for a tool to assess procedural competence.

This study aims to develop and examine the validity of a tool to assess competency at insertion of a chest tube, using either the Seldinger technique or blunt dissection.

A 5-domain...