Interdisciplinary and interprofessional communication intervention: How psychological safety fosters communication and increases patient safety.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Effective teamwork and communication are imperative for patient safety and quality care. Communication errors and human failures are considered the main source of patient harm. Thus, team trainings focusing on communication and creating psychologically safe environments are required. This can facilitate challenging communication and teamwork scenarios, prevent patient safety risks, and increase team performance perception. The sparse research concerning communication interventions calls for an understanding of psychological mechanisms. Therefore, this study investigated mechanisms of an interpersonal team intervention targeting communication and the relation of psychological safety to patient safety and team performance perception based on the applied input-process-outpu

SUBMITTER: Dietl JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10310961 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature