Improving safety culture on adult medical units through multidisciplinary teamwork and communication interventions: the TOPS Project
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- DOI: 10.1136/qshc.2008.031252
Improving safety culture on adult medical units through multidisciplinary teamwork and communication interventions: the TOPS Project
Abstract
Aim: The goal of this project was to improve unit-based safety culture through implementation of a multidisciplinary (pharmacy, nursing, medicine) teamwork and communication intervention.
Method: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture was used to determine the impact of the training with a before-after design.
Results: Surveys were returned from 454 healthcare staff before the training and 368 staff 1 year later. Five of eleven safety culture subscales showed significant improvement. Nurses perceived a stronger safety culture than physicians or pharmacists.
Conclusion: While it is difficult to isolate the effects of the team training intervention from other events occurring during the year between training and postevaluation, overall the intervention seems to have improved the safety culture on these medical units.
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Republished paper: Improving safety culture on adult medical units through multidisciplinary teamwork and communication interventions: the TOPS Project.Postgrad Med J. 2010 Dec;86(1022):729-33. doi: 10.1136/qshc.2008.031252rep. Postgrad Med J. 2010. PMID: 21106808
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