Combining Systems and Teamwork Approaches to Enhance the Effectiveness of Safety Improvement Interventions in Surgery: The Safer Delivery of Surgical Services (S3) Program.
IMPORTANCE: Patient safety improvement interventions usually address either work systems or team culture. We do not know which is more effective, or whether combining approaches is beneficial. OBJECTIVE: To compare improvement in surgical team performance after interventions addressing teamwork culture, work systems, or both. DESIGN: Suite of 5 identical controlled before-after intervention studies, with preplanned analysis of pooled data for indirect comparisons of strategies. SETTING: Operating theatres in 5 UK hospitals performing elective orthopedic, plastic, or vascular surgery PARTICIPANTS:: All operating theatres staff, including surgeons, nurses, anaesthetists, and others INTERVENTIONS:: 4-month safety improvement interventions, using teamwork training (TT), systems redesign and standardization (SOP), Lean quality improvement, SOP + TT combination, or Lean + TT combination. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES: Team technical and nontechnical performance and World Health Organization (WHO) checklist compliance, measured for 3 months before and after intervention using validated scales. Pooled data analysis of before-after change in active and control groups, comparing combined versus single and systems versus teamwork interventions, using 2-way ANOVA. RESULTS: We studied 453 operations, (255 intervention, 198 control). TT improved nontechnical skills and WHO compliance (P < 0.001), but not technical performance; systems interventions (Lean & SOP, 2 & 3) improved nontechnical skills and technical performance (P < 0.001) but improved WHO compliance less. Combined interventions (4 & 5) improved all performance measures except WHO time-out attempts, whereas single approaches (1 & 2 & 3) improved WHO compliance less (P < 0.001) and failed to improve technical performance. CONCLUSIONS & RELEVANCE: Safety interventions combining teamwork training and systems rationalization are more effective than those adopting either approach alone. This has important implications for safety improvement strategies in hospitals.
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2017
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Authors: | McCulloch, Peter ; Morgan, Lauren ; New, Steve ; Catchpole, Ken ; Roberston, Eleanor ; Hadi, Mohammed ; Pickering, Sharon P. ; Collins, Gary ; Griffin, Damian |
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Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins |
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Type of publication: | Article |
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Language: | English |
Notes: | McCulloch, Peter, Morgan, Lauren, New, Steve, Catchpole, Ken, Roberston, Eleanor, Hadi, Mohammed, Pickering, Sharon P., Collins, Gary and Griffin, Damian (2017) Combining Systems and Teamwork Approaches to Enhance the Effectiveness of Safety Improvement Interventions in Surgery: The Safer Delivery of Surgical Services (S3) Program. Annals of Surgery, 265 (1). pp. 90-96. |
Other identifiers: | 10.1097/SLA.0000000000001589 [DOI] |
Source: | BASE |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011945533
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