“Getting Everyone on the Same Page”: Interprofessional Team Training to Develop Shared Mental Models on Interprofessional Rounds

Abstract

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Systematic review of the characteristics of brief team interventions to clarify roles and improve functioning in healthcare teams

“…The retained studies were published between 2009 and 2020 (see Table 1). Studies were conducted in Australia [39], Belgium [55], France [56], Germany [40,57], New Zealand [41], United States [42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52]54], Singapore [58], and Taiwan [53]. Key study characteristics are presented in Table 1 and outlined below.…”

“…Studies were conducted in acute care in-patient settings including the operating room/postanesthesia care unit [40-42, 44, 51], emergency department [52,54], intensive care unit transport team [53], medical/surgical units [39,58], labour and delivery [48], and crisis/cardiac arrest [43,45,49,50,[55][56][57] The overall quantity of the nontechnical skills were different between the groups (p = 0.02).…”

“…Of these, 2955 were in the control group and 3049 in the intervention group. One study did not provide the number of participants in the intervention and control groups [58]. Three studies [41,44,45] included a prepost design and only reported the total number of participants in the study.…”

“…Three studies [41,44,45] included a prepost design and only reported the total number of participants in the study. Researchers reported on studies with physicians only [40,41,52], medical residents/students/interns only [39,42,49,50,54,56], nursing and medical students [43], nurses only [44,48], nursing students only [55], and a mix of care providers [45,47,51,53,57,58]. Only one study reported on a mix of care providers and patients [46].…”

Capsule Commentary on Hsien et al., “Getting Everyone on the Same Page”: Interprofessional Team Training to Develop Shared Mental Models on Interprofessional Rounds

“…T his randomized controlled trial by Hsien et al compared the effect of three team training modalities on the development of shared mental models used in interprofessional rounds. 1 The first arm received a didactic-only training on specific cognitive tools that could be used in interprofessional rounds. The second arm received the didactic training and a virtual simulation.…”