Association between measured teamwork and medical errors: an observational study of prehospital care in the USA

What is it about?

Medical errors, are estimated to be the third leading cause of death in the United States (US) and the 14th leading cause worldwide. The goal of this study was to examine the relationship between measured teamwork and adverse safety events in the prehospital emergency care of children using high-fidelity simulation.This study found that overall teamwork among care delivery teams was strongly associated with the risk of serious adverse events in simulated scenarios of caring for critically ill and injured children.

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