Simulation Training as a Tool for Teamwork Improvement in Multidisciplinary Intensive Care Team

Sheba Medical Center

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Education, Health

Treatments: Behavioral: simulation training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00229411

SHEBA-05-3710-AN-CTIL

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the study is to check whether training mixed teams of physicians and nurses from intensive care units on patient simulators improves teamwork within the teams.

Full description

Patient safety and the prevention of medical error are primary goals of healthcare organizations. One of the means of reducing such errors is teamwork improvement. Simulation training, using advanced patient simulators, has been shown to improve diagnostic, resuscitation and technical skills amongst physicians and nurses. We intend to compare simulation training of a mixed team of physicians and nurses, using specifically designed scenarios based on real life experience, to frontal teaching sessions designed to enhance teamwork, by assessing teamwork, using accepted behavioral scales, during routine work, before and after both interventions.

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• intensive care physicians and nurses working in respiratory ICU willing to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

• unwilling to participate

Trial design

Primary purpose: Educational/Counseling/Training

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)