Background: TeamSTEPPS (Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety) has been shown to improve patient safety by improving teamwork and communication skills amongst all members of the interdisciplinary team. Methods: We developed a 4-hour TeamSTEPPS multi-disciplinary training session, conducted in our simulation center. We invited 90 core members of the medicine service to [...]

Background: Quality and patient safety initiatives are often role-specific with minimal emphasis on cross-discipline collaboration and communication. Prior to project implementation, each discipline’s patient care plans were made in silos without an aligned emphasis on quality and safety initiatives. With implementation of a daily interdisciplinary safety brief based on a shared mental model, our aim [...]