Team training can improve hospitals' safety culture if teams adopt new behavior, according to a study in BMJ Quality & Safety.
Researchers examined the effect of team training on safety culture, which they defined as having four components: reporting, just, flexible and learning cultures. Researchers studied results from surveys on patient safety culture from 24 hospitals that implemented a one-year team training program on safety culture.
Fifty-nine percent of respondents from the 24 hospitals reported receiving team training. The survey scores were higher in three dimensions assessing the flexible and learning components of safety culture at the 24 hospitals than at 13 comparison hospitals that did not implement team training.
The adoption of team behaviors varied from 2.8 percent to 31 percent in the 24 hospitals. Adoption of team behaviors was associated with the likelihood of an individual rating nine items corresponding with all four components of safety culture higher after implementation than at baseline.
The authors concluded, "Team training can result in transformational change in safety culture when the work environment supports the transfer of learning to new behaviour."
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Researchers examined the effect of team training on safety culture, which they defined as having four components: reporting, just, flexible and learning cultures. Researchers studied results from surveys on patient safety culture from 24 hospitals that implemented a one-year team training program on safety culture.
Fifty-nine percent of respondents from the 24 hospitals reported receiving team training. The survey scores were higher in three dimensions assessing the flexible and learning components of safety culture at the 24 hospitals than at 13 comparison hospitals that did not implement team training.
The adoption of team behaviors varied from 2.8 percent to 31 percent in the 24 hospitals. Adoption of team behaviors was associated with the likelihood of an individual rating nine items corresponding with all four components of safety culture higher after implementation than at baseline.
The authors concluded, "Team training can result in transformational change in safety culture when the work environment supports the transfer of learning to new behaviour."
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