A multidisciplinary teamwork training program: the Triad for Optimal Patient Safety (TOPS) experience.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Communication and teamwork failures are a common cause of adverse events. Residency programs, with a mandate to teach systems-based practice, are particularly challenged to address these important skills.

Aim

To develop a multidisciplinary teamwork training program focused on teaching teamwork behaviors and communication skills.

Setting

Internal medicine residents, hospitalists, nurses, pharmacists, and all other staff on a designated inpatient medical unit at an academic medical center.

Program description

We developed a 4-h teamwork training program as part of the Triad for Optimal Patient Safety (TOPS) project. Teaching strategies combined didactic presentation, facilitated discussion using a safety trigger video, and small-group scenario-based

SUBMITTER: Sehgal NL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2596515 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature