does it improve clinical team performance when added to an existing didactic teamwork curriculum?
OBJECTIVE: To determine if high fidelity simulation based team training can improve clinical team performance when added to an existing didactic teamwork curriculum. SETTING: Level 1 trauma center and academic emergency medicine training program. PARTICIPANTS: Emergency department (ED) staff including nurses, technicians, emergency medicine residents, and attending physicians. INTERVENTION: ED staff who had recently received didactic training in the Emergency Team Coordination Course (ETCC) also received an 8 hour intensive experience in an ED simulator in which three scenarios of graduated difficulty were encountered. A comparison group, also ETCC trained, was assigned to work together in the ED for one 8 hour shift. Experimental and comparison teams were observed in the ED before and after the intervention. DESIGN: Single, crossover, prospective, blinded and controlled observational study. Teamwork ratings using previously validated behaviorally anchored rating scales (BARS) were com
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