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Outcome Measures for Effective Teamwork in Inpatient Care
Final Report
The Department of Defense (DoD) has been one of the leaders in actions to improve teamwork, which it has pursued with the goal of achieving safer care and reducing adverse events for patients served by its military hospitals. DoD and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) have worked together to develop tools to improve teamwork in delivering care in order to achieve safer outcomes for patients. In 2004, AHRQ modified its Patient Safety Evaluation Center contract with RAND to add an analytic study to identify and test measures that have the potential to capture improvements in teamwork practices.
This report presents the final results from the teamwork outcome measures study. Study components discussed in the report include the methods used for selecting and testing candidate measures, findings from a literature search that informed the measure-selection process, the measures identified by clinical experts as representing teamwork-sensitive outcomes, and results of the testing of a subset of these measures on the administrative data of the DoD health system. The three clinical areas for which measures were identified are labor and delivery, surgery, and treatment for acute myocardial infarction. Many of the outcome measures identified in this study and all of the process measures require information that is not available in administrative data but that is available in medical charts.
The contents of this report will be of interest to national and state policymakers, health care organizations and clinical practitioners, and health researchers who are engaged in activities to improve the quality and safety of health care and assess the effects of those improvements on care process and patient outcomes.
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Contents
Chapter One:
Introduction
Chapter Two:
Review of the Literature on Teamwork and Patient Safety
Chapter Three:
Selection of Clinical Areas
Chapter Four:
Measure Identification and Rating on Relationship to Teamwork
Chapter Five:
Empirical Testing of Selected Measures
Chapter Six:
Discussion
Appendix A:
Articles Included in Literature Review
Appendix B:
Members of the Clinical Advisory Panel
Appendix C:
Highly Rated Measures for Each Clinical Area
Appendix D:
Descriptions of Highly Rated Measures for Each Clinical Area
Appendix E:
Concepts Suggested by Clinical Advisory Panel
Appendix F:
Empirical Results for Labor and Delivery Measures
Appendix G:
Empirical Results for Surgery Measures
This work was sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The funding for this study was provided by DoD through an Interagency Agreement with AHRQ. The research was conducted in RAND Health, a division of the RAND Corporation.
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