Transactive Memory Systems and Hospital Trauma Team Performance: Shared Experience in Action Teams.

ABSTRACT: We identify and test a theoretical mechanism linking shared team experience and team performance: a transactive memory system (TMS). Our empirical context is the care of patients with severe acute traumatic injury in a hospital emergency department. We coded behavioral indicators of transactive memory from video recordings of trauma resuscitations in a hospital emergency department. We obtained objective measures of team performance -- patient lengths of stay in the intensive care unit and in the hospital -- from hospital records, as well as information about the experience of team members. Our results of analyzing data from 121patients reveal that patients treated by trauma teams with strong TMS experience significantly shorter lengths of stay in the ICU and in the hospital than patients

SUBMITTER: Argote L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12700363 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature