title: Moving forward in patient safety: multidisciplinary team training.
abstract: Communication and teamwork deficiencies have been identified as major contributors to poor clinical outcomes in the labor and delivery unit. In response to these findings, multidisciplinary simulation-based team training techniques have developed to focus specifically on skills training for teams. The evidence demonstrates that multidisciplinary simulation-based team training minimizes poor outcomes by perfecting the elusive teamwork skills that cannot be taught in a didactic setting. Multidisciplinary simulation-based team training is also being used to detect latent system errors in existing or new units, to rehearse complicated procedures (surgical dress rehearsal), and to identify knowledge gaps of labor and delivery teams. Multidisciplinary simulation-based team training should be an integral component of ongoing quality-improvement efforts to ultimately produce teams of experts that perform proficiently.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, H3330, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford University Medical Center, 300 Pasteur Dr, Palo Alto, CA 94305, USA. K.Daniels@Stanford.edu
authors.forename: Kay
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Daniels
authors.forename: Tamika
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Auguste
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards*; D004219:District of Columbia; D004635:Emergency Medicine; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D009774:Obstetrics / Q000193:education* / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D061214:Patient Safety / Q000592:standards*; D011247:Pregnancy; D058996:Quality Improvement