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