Education, Health
Conditions
Keywords
intensive care, teamwork, medical errors, education, simulation
Brief summary
The purpose of the study is to check whether training mixed teams of physicians and nurses from intensive care units on patient simulators improves teamwork within the teams.
Detailed description
Patient safety and the prevention of medical error are primary goals of healthcare organizations. One of the means of reducing such errors is teamwork improvement. Simulation training, using advanced patient simulators, has been shown to improve diagnostic, resuscitation and technical skills amongst physicians and nurses. We intend to compare simulation training of a mixed team of physicians and nurses, using specifically designed scenarios based on real life experience, to frontal teaching sessions designed to enhance teamwork, by assessing teamwork, using accepted behavioral scales, during routine work, before and after both interventions.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALsimulation training
Sponsors
Sheba Medical Center
Study design
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
CROSSOVER
Primary purpose
ECT
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* intensive care physicians and nurses working in respiratory ICU willing to participate in the study
Exclusion criteria
* unwilling to participate
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| improvement in teamwork parameters as measured by previously published tools | — |
Countries
Israel
Outcome results
None listed