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

Education, Health Clinical Trial

Official title:

Experimental Like Observational Study of Teamwork Improvement in Multidisciplinary Intensive Care Team Before and After Simulation Training.

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Withdrawn

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00229411
• Other study ID #: SHEBA-05-3710-AN-CTIL
• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• First received: September 26, 2005
• Last updated: January 23, 2007
• Start date: January 2006
• Est. completion date: May 2006

Study information

• Verified date: January 2007
• Source: Sheba Medical Center
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Israel: Israeli Health Ministry Pharmaceutical Administration
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

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.

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Withdrawn
• Enrollment: 40
• Est. completion date: May 2006
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

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

Exclusion Criteria:

• unwilling to participate

Study Design

Allocation: Non-Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Educational/Counseling/Training

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Education, Health

Intervention

Behavioral:
• simulation training

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Israel	Sheba Medical Center	Tel Hashomer

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Sheba Medical Center

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Israel, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	improvement in teamwork parameters as measured by previously published tools