Toward a Definition of Teamwork in Emergency Medicine

    Authors

    R. Fernandez; S. W. J. Kozlowski; M. J. Shapiro;E. Salas

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Acad. Emerg. Med.

    Keywords

    patient simulation; team training; team effectiveness; patient safety; PERFORMANCE; TEAMS; LEADERSHIP; MODEL; METAANALYSIS; BEHAVIORS; Emergency Medicine

    Abstract

    The patient safety literature from the past decade emphasizes the importance of teamwork skills and human factors in preventing medical errors. Simulation has been used within aviation, the military, and now health care domains to effectively teach and assess teamwork skills. However, attempts to expand and generalize research and training principles have been limited due to a lack of a well-defined, well-researched taxonomy. As part of the 2008 Academic Emergency Medicine Consensus Conference on "The Science of Simulation in Healthcare," a subset of the group expertise and group assessment breakout sections identified evidence-based recommendations for an emergency medicine (EM) team taxonomy and performance model. This material was disseminated within the morning session and was discussed both during breakout sessions and via online messaging. Below we present a well-defined, well-described taxonomy that will help guide design, implementation, and assessment of simulation-based team training programs.

    Journal Title

    Academic Emergency Medicine

    Volume

    15

    Issue/Number

    11

    Publication Date

    1-1-2008

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    1104

    Last Page

    1112

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000261051700018

    ISSN

    1069-6563

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