Effective interactions between professionals from highly diverse disciplines is essential in
order to achieve high reliability 10 The recognition that team failure is a key factor in patient …

Healthcare today is the prerogative of teams rather than of individuals. In acute care
domains such as anaesthesia, intensive care, and emergency medicine, the work is …

Methods A non-equivalent groups design was used to assess whether students could be
taught to recognise features of effective teamwork, including a pair of expert raters. One-way …

Patients and their families in addition to healthcare providers, administrators and workers of
many types must deal with an increasingly complex healthcare system. 1 Fortunately, the …

Hospitals, and surgical operating theatres (OTs) in particular, are environments in which
inter‐professional teamwork and learning are essential to secure patient safety and effective …

Introduction: The frequency of adverse events in the operating theatre has been linked to the
quality of teamwork and communication. Developing suitable measures of teamwork may …

Higher education methods have shifted from providing instruction to facilitating successful
learning and training opportunities to set students and physicians in training on the road to …

Background The Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety
(TeamSTEPPS) programme is an evidence-based approach to teamwork training. In-person …

Background The Measurement and Monitoring of Safety Framework (MMSF) aims to move
beyond a narrow focus on measurement and past harmful events as the major focus for …

Background Concern over the frequency of unintended harm to patients has focused
attention on the importance of teamwork and communication in avoiding errors. This has led …