Trial reportScandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine2021
Do team and task performance improve after training situation awareness? A randomized controlled study of interprofessional intensive care teams.
Trial report in Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Effectiveness of non-technical skills training in intensive care units: a systematic review.BMC medical education · 2025Pooled it
- Eyes wide open in the ICU: A scoping review of tools and strategies for situational awareness.European journal of anaesthesiology and intensive care · 2026Article
- The Team Science Readiness Framework for scientific research collaboration.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- When robots reshape teams: neurodynamic insights into taskwork and teamwork in search and rescue.Frontiers in neuroergonomics · 2026Article
- Interprofessional continuing education in health professions - a scoping review of framework conditions, design processes and evaluation designs.GMS journal for medical education · 2026Article
- Development of a digital application to train and debrief situational awareness in interprofessional teams: A simulation-based approach to mitigate patient safety hazards with a virtual room of error.GMS journal for medical education · 2026Article
- Exploring effects of resilience-focused debriefing on reflection and teamwork in interprofessional simulation-based education - a mixed method study.Advances in simulation (London, England) · 2025Article
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- Multidisciplinary early activity team collaboration practice in ICUs: A qualitative study.PloS one · 2025Article
- The ABCDE approach in critically ill patients: A scoping review of assessment tools, adherence and reported outcomes.Resuscitation plus · 2024Article
- Non-technical skills needed by medical disaster responders- a scoping review.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2024Article
- Evaluation of a Course to Teach Medical Students Latent Hazard Identification in the Operating Room.Cureus · 2024Article
- Multi-disciplinary, simulation-based, standardised trauma team training within the Victorian State Trauma System.Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA · 2023Article
- In Situ Simulation: A Strategy to Restore Patient Safety in Intensive Care Units after the COVID-19 Pandemic? Systematic Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Shared Situational Awareness within the Hospital Emergency Context: A Scoping Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- The effectiveness of improving healthcare teams' human factor skills using simulation-based training: a systematic review.Advances in simulation (London, England) · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundWhen working in complex environments with critically ill patients, team performance is influenced by situation awareness in teams. Moreover, improved situation awareness in the teams will probably improve team and task performance. The aim of this study is to evaluate an educational programme on situation awareness for interprofessional teams at the intensive care units using team and task performance as outcomes.
methodTwenty interprofessional teams from the northern part of Sweden participated in this randomized controlled intervention study conducted in situ in two intensive care units. The study was based on three cases (cases 0, 1 and 2) with patients in a critical situation. The intervention group (n = 11) participated in a two-hour educational programme in situation awareness, including theory, practice, and reflection, while the control group (n = 9) performed the training without education in situation awareness. The outcomes were team performance (TEAM instrument), task performance (ABCDE checklist) and situation awareness (Situation Awareness Global Assessment Technique (SAGAT)). Generalized estimating equation were used to analyse the changes from case 0 to case 2, and from case 1 to case 2.
resultsEducation in situation awareness in the intervention group improved TEAM leadership (p = 0.003), TEAM task management (p = 0.018) and TEAM total (p = 0.030) when comparing cases 1 and 2; these significant improvements were not found in the control group. No significant differences were observed in the SAGAT or the ABCDE checklist.
conclusionsThis intervention study shows that a 2-h education in situation awareness improved parts of team performance in an acute care situation. Team leadership and task management improved in the intervention group, which may indicate that the one or several of the components in situation awareness (perception, comprehension and projection) were improved. However, in the present study this potential increase in situation awareness was not detected with SAGAT. Further research is needed to evaluate how educational programs can be used to increase situation awareness in interprofessional ICU teams and to establish which components that are essential in these programs.
trial registrationThis randomized controlled trial was not registered as it does not report the results of health outcomes after a health care intervention on human participants.
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