What Is TeamSTEPPS®?
              An evidence-based teamwork system 
              Designed to improve:
                 Quality
                 Safety
                 Efficiency of health care
              Practical and adaptable
              Provides ready-to-use materials for training and 
                ongoing teamwork
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                   Why Use TeamSTEPPS?
          Goal: Produce highly effective medical teams who 
            optimize the use of information, people, and 
            resources to achieve the best clinical outcomes
          Teams of individuals who communicate effectively 
            and back each other up dramatically reduce the 
            consequences of human error
          Team skills are not innate; they must be trained
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               Why Invest in TeamSTEPPS?
           Cost of TeamSTEPPS is minimal compared with 
             savings
           Annual cost is approximately 98,000 lives and $17-29 
             billion
           Errors can be reduced by changes to the health care 
             system, specifically by providing interdisciplinary 
             team training
           
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               What Can TeamSTEPPS Do for Us?
         Emergency Department1                     Clinical Units in a Medical 
          After implementation of                 Center2
             multiple medical team                  After implementation of SBAR 
             training programs:                        to improve communication 
              Improved observed team                  among clinical caregivers:
                behaviors                               Reduced rate of adverse drug 
              Enhanced staff attitudes                   events (from 30 to 18 per 1,000 
                toward teamwork                           patient days)
              Reduced observed clinical                Improved medication 
                errors                                    reconciliation at patient 
                                                          admission from 72% to 88% and 
                                                          at discharge from 53% to 89%
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                        What Can TeamSTEPPS 
                                        Do for Us?
            Labor and Delivery Units1                     Intensive Care Units2
             After implementation of multiple             After implementation of a 
               teamwork strategies and tools:                 “Patient Daily Goals” form 
                A 50% reduction in the                       to facilitate staff 
                   Weighted Adverse Outcome                   communication:
                   Score, which describes the                  A 50% decrease in mean 
                   adverse event score per delivery              ICU length of stay from 2.2 
                A 50% decrease in the Severity                  days to 1.1 days
                   Index, which measures the 
                   average severity of each 
                   delivery with an adverse event
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