Validation of a teamwork perceptions measure to increase patient safety

Abstract

The T-TPQ is a construct-valid instrument for measuring perceptions of teamwork. This has beneficial implications for patient safety and future research that studies medical teamwork.

Impact of teamwork improvement training on communication and teamwork climate in ambulatory reproductive health care

“…Typically, the director of quality or the health center manager completes the communication behaviors assessment. The TeamSTEPPS Teamwork Perceptions Questionnaire (T‐TPQ; http://www.ahrq.gov/teamstepps/instructor/reference/teampercept.html), which was developed by AHRQ, is a validated 35‐item self‐administered questionnaire that assesses the perceptions of teamwork among all individual staff members. The statements are split evenly into the following 5 domains: team structure, communication, mutual support, leadership, and situation monitoring.…”

TeamSTEPPS®: An evidence‐based approach to reduce clinical errors threatening safety in outpatient settings: An integrative review

“…There were no reported randomized control trials evaluating the implementation of TeamSTEPPS related to patient safety and communication improvement. A wide variety of study populations were represented, including community hospitals, academic hospitals, large private tertiary care facilities, risk management training facilities, and US Department of Defense health care facilities . All of the studies included were completed in the United States.…”

“…The most common evaluation tools discussed were the TeamSTEPPS Teamwork Attitude Questionnaire and Teamwork Perception Questionnaire. Both of these tools were shown to be valid, reliable, and effective in determining readiness for TeamSTEPPS implementation as well as postimplementation success …”

“…Although a wide variety of health care settings were evaluated, none specifically evaluated outpatient, office‐based health care environments. As studies have relatively small sample sizes, obtaining statistically significant results was difficult . Larger studies are needed in both the inpatient and outpatient settings.…”

What can acute medicine learn from qualitative methods?

“…crisis management to avert a serious patient deterioration) clinical outcomes [40]. Investigations of teamwork in healthcare tend to utilise methods from social and applied psychology such as experiments and surveys [41], with commonly used measures including survey tools such as the TeamSTEPPS Teamwork Perceptions Questionnaire [42] and the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire [43].…”