TeamSTEPPS is an evidence-based set of strategies intended to improve team performance. In this video, Tonya Martino, the Director of Team Performance for the WWAMI Institute for Simulation in Healthcare, introduces TeamSTEPPS and discusses the communication strategies we will practice in this week’s simulation: closed loop communication and SBAR.

SBAR

SBAR is a way to communicate key information efficiently.

Resources & references

Teaching Critical Thinking: A Case for Instruction in Cognitive Biases to Reduce Diagnostic Errors and Improve Patient Safety – PubMed (nih.gov)

A Cognitive Autopsy Approach Towards Explaining Diagnostic Failure – PMC (nih.gov)

Review of the Basics of Cognitive Error in Emergency Medicine: Still No Easy Answers – PubMed (nih.gov)