Medical error is a leading cause of adverse events and patient death. Further, poor communication is a leading cause of medical error. Team training based on Crew Resource Management (CRM) has been suggested as a way to improve communication among caregivers and thereby improve patient safety. However, little data exist demonstrating that CRM concepts can be integrated into clinical medicine or...

BACKGROUND Teamwork in health care settings is widely recognized as an important factor in providing high-quality patient care. However, the behaviors that comprise effective teamwork, the organizational factors that support teamwork, and the relationship between teamwork and patient outcomes remain empirical questions in need of rigorous study. OBJECTIVE To identify and review survey instrum...

Major theories of team effectiveness position emergent collective cognitive processes as central drivers of team performance. We meta-analytically cumulated 231 correlations culled from 65 independent studies of team cognition and its relations to teamwork processes, motivational states, and performance outcomes. We examined both broad relationships among cognition, behavior, motivation, and pe...

Disease-related research requires a different kind of teamwork, says Ira Mellman. He hopes to find that team at his new home at Genentech.

Background This study shows how emotions are expressed in a trauma team setting and assesses their influence and importance with regard to team performance. The term ”Team emotion” can be interpreted as the emotions that trauma team members do/do not display in a trauma receiving unit. Health care professionals are expected to refrain from showing emotion in the presence of patients and colleag...

Background Working effectively in teams is an important 21st century skill as well as a fundamental component of the ABET professional competencies. However, successful teamwork is challenging, and empirical studies with adolescents concerning how the collaboration quality of team members is related to team performance are limited. Purpose/Hypothesis This study investigated the relationship bet...

Definition: Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care Key Message Safe, effective, satisfying patient care requires teamwork, collaboration with and communication among members of the team, including the patient and family as active partners. Objectives 1. Define team...

BACKGROUND Measuring team factors in evaluations of Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) may provide important information for enhancing CQI processes and outcomes; however, the large number of potentially relevant factors and associated measurement instruments makes inclusion of such measures challenging. This review aims to provide guidance on the selection of instruments for measuring team-l...

The concept of creating autonomous agents capable of exhibiting ad hoc teamwork was recently introduced as a challenge to the AI, and specifically to the multiagent systems community. An agent capable of ad hoc teamwork is one that can effectively cooperate with multiple potential teammates on a set of collaborative tasks. Previous research has investigated theoretically optimal ad hoc teamwork...

Team ISIS (ISI Synthetic) successfully participated in the rst international RoboCup soccer tournament (RoboCup'97) held in Nagoya, Japan, in August 1997. ISIS won the third-place prize in over 30 teams that participated in the simulation league of RoboCup'97 (the most popular among the three RoboCup'97 leagues). In terms of research accomplishments, ISIS illustrated the usefulness of an explic...