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Improving Faculty's Ability to Speak Up to Others in the Operating Room

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT02170818

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Official title

Improving Faculty's Ability to Speak Up to Others in the Operating Room: A Simulation Based Randomized Controlled Trial of an Educational Intervention

Brief summary

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Importance Team members speaking-up by raising concerns about inappropriate or unsafe actions of others within the team can have direct, immediate, and preventive effect on adverse outcomes. However, little is known about the hurdles and enablers of this behavior in healthcare, especially within the operating room setting. Objective 1\. Determine if an educational workshop would improve speaking-up behaviors of practicing anesthesiologists when presented with realistically-simulated clinical situations. 2.Describe speaking-up behaviors addressed to a surgeon, a nurse, and a colleague. 3. Identify the self-reported hurdles and enablers for speaking-up in those situations encountered. Design Randomized controlled experiment of an educational workshop intervention on communication behaviors in a simulated case. Qualitative analysis of debriefing conversations following the simulated case. Setting Established academic simulation center Participants Seventy-one practicing anesthesiologists from four academic medical centers and one community hospital Intervention Fifty minute educational workshop on speaking-up that included rationale, conversational techniques, a rubric for speaking-up, and role-play.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT02170818
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Not applicable
Enrollment
310 participants

Conditions and interventions

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
Not listed
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Healthy volunteers not accepted

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Study timeline

Start date
Feb 29, 2008
Primary completion
Apr 30, 2014
Completion
Apr 30, 2014
Last update posted
Jun 22, 2014

2008 – 2014

United States locations

U.S. sites
1
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
Massachusetts General Hospital Boston Massachusetts 02139

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