The purpose of the study is to check whether training mixed teams of physicians and nurses from intensive care units on patient simulators improves teamwork within the teams.

Condition	Intervention
Education, Health	Behavior: simulation training

Further study details as provided by Sheba Medical Center:

Primary Outcomes: improvement in teamwork parameters as measured by previously published tools
Expected Total Enrollment:  40

Patient safety and the prevention of medical error are primary goals of healthcare organizations. One of the means of reducing such errors is teamwork improvement. Simulation training, using advanced patient simulators, has been shown to improve diagnostic, resuscitation and technical skills amongst physicians and nurses. We intend to compare simulation training of a mixed team of physicians and nurses, using specifically designed scenarios based on real life experience, to frontal teaching sessions designed to enhance teamwork, by assessing teamwork, using accepted behavioral scales, during routine work, before and after both interventions.

Genders Eligible for Study:  Both

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• intensive care physicians and nurses working in respiratory ICU willing to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

• unwilling to participate

Please refer to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov identifier  NCT00229411

Asaph E Nini, MD      972-3-5302026    asaph.nini@sheba.health.gov.il

Israel
      Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer,  52621,  Israel

Study chairs or principal investigators

Asaph E Nini, MD,  Principal Investigator,  Sheba Medical Center and Medical Simulation Center   

Study ID Numbers:  3710/2005
Last Updated:  December 8, 2005
Record first received:  September 26, 2005
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:  NCT00229411
Health Authority: Israel: Israeli Health Ministry Pharmaceutical Administration
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on 2006-01-10