TeamSTEPPS : a Teamwork System to Improve Teamwork Skills and Patient Safety

Improving Hospital Patient Safety Through Teamwork: The Use of TeamSTEPPS In Critical Access Hospitals

The publication of To Err is Human brought unprecedented attention to the problem of medical errors, which rank among the leading causes of death and injury in the United States.1 Although some authors have noted considerable advancement in the realm of patient safety,2 other work suggests that harm remains common with little evidence of widespread improvement.3 For CAHs, the choice of strategi...

Assessing teamwork attitudes in healthcare: development of the TeamSTEPPS teamwork attitudes questionnaire.

INTRODUCTION The report, To Err is Human, indicated that a large number of deaths are caused by medical error. A central tenet of this report was that patient safety was not only a function of sophisticated healthcare technology and treatments, but also the degree to which healthcare professionals could perform effectively as teams. Research suggests that teamwork comprises four core skills: Le...

Anaesthetists' attitudes to teamwork and safety.

A questionnaire survey was conducted with 222 anaesthetists from 11 Scottish hospitals to measure their attitudes towards human and organisational factors that can have an impact on effective team performance and consequently on patient safety. A customised version of the Operating Room Management Attitude Questionnaire (ORMAQ) was used. This measures attitudes to leadership, communication, tea...

Feedback tool helps improve teamwork.

Developing and Assessing College Student Teamwork Skills

Astronaut Jim Lovell’s words during the Apollo 13 lunar mission, “Houston, we have a problem,” launched a remarkable tale of effective teamwork and creative problem solving by NASA engineers working to try to save the lives of the imperiled crew when two oxygen tanks exploded en route to the moon. Details of the dramatic and successful resolution to the problem became widely known in the motion...