Title
Toward a Definition of Teamwork in Emergency Medicine
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
ISSN
1069-6563
Recommended Citation
"Toward a Definition of Teamwork in Emergency Medicine" (2008). Faculty Bibliography 2000s. 309.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2000/309
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