title: The emerging role of simulation education to achieve patient safety: translating deliberate practice and debriefing to save lives.
abstract: Simulation-based educational processes are emerging as key tools for assessing and improving patient safety. Multidisciplinary or interprofessional simulation training can be used to optimize crew resource management and safe communication principles. There is good evidence that simulation training improves self-confidence, knowledge, and individual and team performance on manikins. Emerging evidence supports that procedural simulation, deliberate practice, and debriefing can also improve operational performance in clinical settings and can result in safer patient and population/system outcomes in selected settings. This article highlights emerging evidence that shows how simulation-based interventions and education contribute to safer, more efficient systems of care that save lives.
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Simulation Center, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA.
authors.forename: Sharon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Griswold
authors.forename: Srikala
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ponnuru
authors.forename: Akira
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nishisaki
authors.forename: Demian
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Szyld
authors.forename: Moira
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Davenport
authors.forename: Ellen S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Deutsch
authors.forename: Vinay
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Nadkarni
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008348:Manikins; D061214:Patient Safety; D016544:Patient Simulation; D011787:Quality of Health Care