Development of the Team Evaluation and Assessment Measure Quality Improvement (TEAM-QI) and Proof-Of-Concept Testing in Maternity Teams.

ABSTRACT: Poor teamwork is often implicated in serious healthcare delivery failings, leading to calls for effective team improvement interventions. Taking a complex, adaptive systems perspective, we adapted an oncology team quality improvement program to make it appropriate for other areas of clinical care. Study phases included: (1) meetings with National Health Service, policy and service user representatives (n = 19), a rapid review of existing maternity teamwork interventions, and mapping of the proposed program content to an evidence-based model of team effectiveness; (2) feasibility and acceptability testing of the team questionnaire component, and content analysis of free-text responses with four maternity teams within two NHS Trusts (n = 26). Meetings with representatives highlighted the imp

SUBMITTER: Beck S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11790520 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature