title: Measuring multidisciplinary team effectiveness in a ward-based healthcare setting: development of the team functioning assessment tool.
abstract: Nontechnical skills relating to team functioning are vital to the effective delivery of patient care and safety. In this study, we develop a reliable behavioral marker tool for assessing nontechnical skills that are critical to the success of ward-based multidisciplinary healthcare teams. The Team Functioning Assessment Tool (TFAT) was developed and refined using a literature review, focus groups, card-sorting exercise, field observations, and final questionnaire evaluation and refinement process. Results demonstrated that Clinical Planning, Executive Tasks, and Team Relations are important facets of effective multidisciplinary healthcare team functioning. The TFAT was also shown to yield acceptable inter-rater agreement.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Skills Development Service of Queensland Health, Australia. gigi_sutton@health.qld.gov.au
authors.forename: Gigi
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sutton
authors.forename: Jenny
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Liao
authors.forename: Nerina L
authors.initials: NL
authors.lastname: Jimmieson
authors.forename: Simon Lloyd D
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Restubog
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D017144:Focus Groups; D006757:Hospital Units / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D015588:Observer Variation; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011793:Queensland; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014741:Video Recording