As part of its effort to fulfill its mission goals, AHRQ, in collaboration with the Department of Defense's (DoD) Tricare Management Activity (TMA), developed TeamSTEPPS® (aka, Team Strategies and Tools for Enhancing Performance and Patient Safety) to provide an evidence-based suite of tools and strategies for training teamwork-based patient safety to health care professionals. TeamSTEPPS includes multiple toolkits which are all tied to or are variants of the core curriculum. In addition to the core curriculum, TeamSTEPPS resources have been developed for primary care, rapid response systems, long-term care, and patients with limited English proficiency.
The main objective of the TeamSTEPPS program is to improve patient safety by training health care staff in various teamwork, communication, and patient safety concepts, tools, and techniques and ultimately helping to build national capacity for supporting teamwork-based patient safety efforts in health care organizations. Since 2007, AHRQ's National Implementation Program has produced (and continues to produce) Master Trainers who have stimulated the use and adoption of TeamSTEPPS in health care delivery systems. These individuals were trained using the TeamSTEPPS core curriculum at regional training centers across the U.S. AHRQ has also provided technical assistance and consultation on implementing TeamSTEPPS and has developed various channels of learning (e.g., user networks, various educational venues) for continued support and the improvement of teamwork in health care. Since the inception of the National Implementation Program, AHRQ has trained more than 5,000 participants to serve as TeamSTEPPS Master Trainers.
Given the success of the National Implementation Program, AHRQ launched an effort to provide TeamSTEPPS training to primary care health professionals using the TeamSTEPPS in Primary Care version of the curriculum. Most of the participants in the current National Implementation Program's training come from hospital settings, because the TeamSTEPPS core curriculum is most aligned with that context. Under this new initiative, primary care practice facilitators will be trained through a combination of in-person and online training. Upon completion of the course, these individuals will be Master Trainers who will (a) train the staff at primary care practices, and (b) implement or support the implementation of TeamSTEPPS tools and strategies in primary care practices.
As part of this initiative, AHRQ seeks to conduct an evaluation of the TeamSTEPPS in Primary Care training program. This evaluation seeks to understand the effectiveness of the TeamSTEPPS in Primary Care training and how trained practice facilitators implement TeamSTEPPS in primary care practices.
US Code:
42 USC Sec. 299
Name of Law: Healthcare Research and Quality Act of 1999
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Form 1 TeamSTEPPS in Primary Care Post-Training Survey
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TS_Primary_Care_Supporting Statement Part A-FINAL(3).doc
TeamSTEPPS in Primary Care Post-Training Survey