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Trial reportThe journal of trauma and acute care surgery2016

Trauma team discord and the role of briefing.

Susan Steinemann, Ajay Bhatt, Gregory Suares, Alexander Wei, Nina Ho, Gene Kurosawa, Eunjung Lim, Benjamin Berg

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in The journal of trauma and acute care surgery, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Worldwide snapshot of trauma team structure and training: an international survey.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2023
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  7. The team briefing: setting up relational coordination for your resuscitation.Clinical and experimental emergency medicine · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Susan SteinemannFrom The Queen's Medical Center (S.S., A.B., G.S.); Department of Surgery (S.S.), Division of Emergency Medicine (A.B., G.S.), Biostatistics and Quantitative Health Sciences (E.L.), SimTiki Simulation Center (B.B.), University of Hawaii, John A. Burns School of Medicine (A.W., N.H., G.K.).
Ajay Bhatt
Gregory Suares
Alexander Wei
Nina Ho
Gene Kurosawa
Eunjung Lim
Benjamin Berg

Funding

UH Hilo COP A&RP20GM103466 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA · PI Peter R Hoffmann · 2012 to 2026
$60.3M
RESEARCH DESIGN AND BIOSTATISTICS COREU54MD007584 · NIMHD · UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA · PI MOKUAU, NOREEN, SHIRAMIZU, BRUCE T · 2012 to 2018
$21.1M
RESEARCH DESIGN, BIOSTATISTICS AND RESEARCH ETHICS COREG12MD007601 · NIMHD · UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA · PI BERRY, MARLA J · 2012 to 2016
$13.0M
NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM103466NIMHD NIH HHS G12 MD007601NIMHD NIH HHS U54 MD007584
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundBriefing of the trauma team before patient arrival is unstructured in many centers. We surveyed trauma teams regarding agreement on patient care priorities and evaluated the impact of a structured, physician-led briefing on concordance during simulated resuscitations.

methodsTrauma nurses at our Level II center were surveyed, and they participated in four resuscitation scenarios, randomized to "briefed" or "nonbriefed." For nonbriefed scenarios, nurses independently reviewed triage sheets with written information. Briefed scenarios had a structured 4-minute physician-led briefing reviewing triage sheets identical to nonbriefed scenarios. Teams included three to four nurses (subjects) and two to four confederates (physicians, respiratory therapists). Each team served as their own control group. Confederates were blinded to nurses' briefed or nonbriefed status. Immediately before, and at the midpoint of each scenario, nurses estimated patients' morbidity and mortality and ranked the top 3 of 16 designated immediate care priorities. Briefed and nonbriefed groups' responses were compared for (1) agreement using intraclass correlation coefficient, (2) concordance with physicians' responses using the Fisher exact test, (3) teamwork via T-NOTECHS ratings by nurses and physicians using t-test, and (4) time to complete clinical tasks using t test.

resultsThirty-eight nurses participated. Ninety-seven percent "agreed/strongly agreed" briefing is important, but only 46% agreed briefing was done well. Comparing briefed versus nonbriefed scenarios, nurses' estimation of morbidity and mortality in the briefed scenarios showed significantly greater agreement with each other and with physicians' answers (p < 0.01). Rank lists also better agreed with each other (intraclass correlation coefficient, 0.64 vs 0.59) and with physicians' answers in the briefed scenarios. T-NOTECHS Leadership ratings were significantly higher in the briefed scenarios (3.70 vs 3.39; p < 0.01). Time to completion of key clinical tasks was significantly faster for one of the briefed scenarios.

conclusionsDiscordant perceptions of patient care goals was frequently observed. Structured physician-led briefing seemed to improve interprofessional team concordance, leadership, and task completion in simulated trauma resuscitations.

Indexed as

CommunicationInterprofessional RelationsDecision MakingHumansNursing Staff, HospitalOutcome and Process Assessment, Health CarePatient Care TeamProfessional CompetenceResuscitationTrauma CentersTriage

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PMID26953754
PMCPMC4915979

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