“Anesthesia stat, 704.” With that, a team of UB health sciences students rushes in to begin administering care to a patient. The sound — recorded from the halls of Erie County Medical Center — was ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released an updated version of its successful TeamSTEPPS® curriculum, an evidence-based set of teamwork tools aimed at optimizing patient ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality updated its TeamSTEPPS teamwork and communications program. The agency will no longer provide in-person training, but instead will focus on online ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s team training program, TeamSTEPPS reduced medical errors and preventable adverse events in a study published in the Journal of the American Medical ...

Evans Army Community Hospital staff met with pilots of the 4th Combat Aviation Brigade to observe a different perspective on team coordination Dec. 1. The hospital's staff members who participated in ...

TeamSTEPPS' systematic approach is structured to identify barriers through tools and strategies which may include team huddles, feedback and handoffs during shift changes. According to the TeamSTEPPS ...

"The incidence of RSI [retained surgical items] was significantly lower during the time period after implementing RF detection technology and following TeamSTEPPS training, primarily driven by a ...

A new guide from Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and DOD provides instruction to master trainers on using simulation-based training when teaching TeamSTEPPS, a three-phased process aimed at ...

A program designed to improve patient safety and teamwork could boost medical residents’ teamwork skills, according to a study published in the Archives of Surgery. Researchers integrated the ...

Walter Reed Bethesda staff consistently seeks out new best practices to enhance the patient experience and deliver extraordinary patient care and for clinical departments across the medical center to ...