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| Name | Class |
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| Central Denmark Region | OTHER |
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Background:
Effective teamwork and quality care are crucial for patient safety overall. Simulation-based team training offers a valuable approach to improving communication, coordination, and decision-making among healthcare professionals, leading to better outcomes and a safer healthcare environment. By evaluating the effectiveness of this training method, the project aims to contribute to the continuous improvement of healthcare delivery.
Hypothesis: Implementation of simulation-based team training in pediatric departments will lead to improved teamwork, communication, and coordination among healthcare professionals, resulting in enhanced patient outcomes and a safer healthcare environment.
Setup: From April 2023 to April 2024 a simulation-based training program will be implemented. The intervention group consists of healthcare professionals working as physicians or nurses in four pediatric departments. The intervention entails increasing the quantity of simulation-based team training within the intervention group. Additionally, measures to enhance and support simulation will be introduced within the intervention group.
Concurrently, another four pediatric departments will serve as a control group, in which no intervention will be implemented.
Both groups consist of approximately 600 healthcare professionals, contributing to a total of 1,200 participants included in this project.
Data collection:
Registration of simulation: The simulation facilitator responsible for each session completes a brief web-based questionnaire made readily accessible from all platforms by QR-code. Data includes Regional ID (unique personal identifier), gender, age, profession, simulation duration, and content, as well as learning goals.
Outcome measures include 1) patient safety culture, 2) rate of sick leave among healthcare professionals, 3) Apgar score, and 4) an intervention cost-benefit analysis.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Intervention arm | Experimental | The intervention entails boosting the quantity and frequency of simulation-based team training within the intervention group. Additionally, measures to enhance and support simulation will be introduced within the intervention group. |
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| Control arm | No Intervention | Performing simulation as usual |
| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Simulation-based team training intervention | Behavioral | Participants in the intervention group will aim to participate in simulation at a higher quantity and frequency. Moreover, the intervention group:
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Sick leave | Change from before intervention to after intervention assessed by administrative human resources database | Up to 30 months |
| Patient safety culture | Change from baseline to after intervention assessed by SAQ-DK Questionnaire | Up to three months |
| Apgar score | Change from before intervention to after intervention assessed by administrative human resources database The Apgar score is based on a score of 1 to 10, determining how well the baby tolerated the birthing process. The higher the Apgar score, the better the baby is doing after birth | Up to 30 months |
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Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
1) If participants are employed in both intervention and control group during the project period
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Anders Schram | Central Denmark Region | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Corporate HR, MidtSim, Central Denmark Region | Aarhus | Denmark |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
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| 40600675 | Derived | Schram AL, Bonne NL, Henriksen TB, Hertel NT, Lindhard MS. Factors associated with participation in simulation-based training. Dan Med J. 2025 Jun 12;72(7):A12240914. doi: 10.61409/A12240914. | |
| 38824537 | Derived | Schram A, Bonne NL, Henriksen TB, Paltved C, Hertel NT, Lindhard MS. Simulation-based team training for healthcare professionals in pediatric departments: study protocol for a nonrandomized controlled trial. BMC Med Educ. 2024 Jun 1;24(1):607. doi: 10.1186/s12909-024-05602-z. |
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A controlled intervention study comparing two groups each consisting of four pediatric departments.
Each group consists of approximately 600 participants
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