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HEDoctoral network2023–2027

Tools4Teams · Research Training to Design and Implement Tools Supporting Safe Teamwork in Healthcare

Horizon Europe — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2023-03-01 → 2027-02-28
EU contribution
€2,569,212
Participants
21
Scheme
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN

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Results in brief

Tools4Teams: Research Training to Design and Implement Tools Supporting Safe Teamwork in Healthcare

Teamwork is crucial to maintain safe and effective care There is ample evidence that effective teamwork is crucial to the provision of safe and effective patient care. In the last decade significant progress has been made to describe cognitive, affective, and behavioral team interactions that determine safe and effective care. These team interactions are supported by healthcare professionals’ non-technical skills: a combination of cognitive (e.g. decision making), social (e.g. leadership) and self-regulation skills (e.g. stress and fatigue). Current challenges to effective team performance The complexity of healthcare is rapidly increasing due to technological innovations, increasing healthcare specialization, and decentralization of care delivery. These changes pose emerging challenges to the performance of health care teams, such as the need for collaboration between multiple teams, including patients and families as team members. The Tools4Teams network will study emerging tools and training for improving teamwork, as well as developing new approaches to address emerging teamwork challenges in healthcare. Training program The primary goal of the Tools4Teams project is to train 12 highly skilled Doctoral Candidates with in-depth knowledge and cross-disciplinary expertise in methods for research on teamwork and healthcare services, design and system thinking, and ethics, complemented with transferable and networking skills, an entrepreneurial mind-set and experience of industrial application. Tools4Teams aims to establish a European training network to prepare the next generation of teamwork experts to contribute to the next step in safe and effective care. Tools4Teams brings together expertise from social and technical sciences, human centered design, education, and clinical specialties alongside non-academic partners from technological business, healthcare, and education to reach both scientific and societal impact.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

There is a large body of evidence demonstrating that effective teamwork by healthcare teams is crucial to maintain safe and effective patient care in complex care contexts. Complexity of healthcare is rapidly increasing due to technological innovation, increasing healthcare specialisation and decentralisation of care provision. Teams urgently need innovative tools that support team interactions to augment their situation awareness of and responsiveness to complex healthcare situations. Both in centralized acute care settings and in decentralized chronic care settings there is an urgent need to deeper understand team performance in complex situations and to apply this knowledge in the design and implementation of innovative tools in training and real-time application. Tools4Teams aims to establish a European training network to prepare the next generation of teamwork experts to contribute to the next step in safe and effective care. Tools4Teams brings together expertise from social and technical sciences, human centred design, education, and clinical specialties alongside non-academic partners from technological business, healthcare, and education to reach both scientific and societal impact.Tools4Teams recognizes and builds upon the transformative opportunities created by the application of behavioural sciences methodologies in healthcare and extend it with human centred design of tools as to impact upon the most challenging problems in research and delivery of safe and effective care. Mixed-methods designs will be applied to advance the scientific knowledge on evidence-based training and tools:1. to support team interaction processes;2. to integrate patient involvement in teamwork;3. to support multiple team performance;4. to facilitate innovative training (i.e. virtual and augmented reality).This research has practical implications for healthcare as a whole and will benefit clinician teams and the patients for whom they care.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • STICHTING AMSTERDAM UMC · AmsterdamCoordinatorNetherlands
  • AEROGEN LTD · GalwayIreland
  • Caresharing B.V. · AmsterdamNetherlands
  • FACHHOCHSCHULE NORDWESTSCHWEIZ FHNW · WindischSwitzerland
  • KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · KOBENHAVNDenmark
  • LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN · PlaneggGermany
  • Medability GmbH · MuenchenGermany
  • ORAMAVR SA · HERAKLIONGreece
  • REGION HOVEDSTADEN · HillerodDenmark
  • Reinier Haga Groep Orthopedisch Centrum B.V. · ZoetermeerNetherlands
  • STICHTING NEDERLANDS INSTITUUT VOOR ONDERZOEK VAN DE GEZONDHEIDSZORG · UtrechtNetherlands
  • STICHTING VU · AmsterdamNetherlands
  • TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT · DelftNetherlands
  • TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN · EindhovenNetherlands
  • TILBURG UNIVERSITY- UNIVERSITEIT VAN TILBURG · TilburgNetherlands
  • UNIVERSITAET BERN · BernSwitzerland
  • UNIVERSITAT ZURICH · ZurichSwitzerland
  • UNIVERSITATSKLINIKUM BONN · BonnGermany
  • UNIVERSITETET I STAVANGER · StavangerNorway
  • UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY · GalwayIreland
  • VALIDE AS · StavangerNorway

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union