TeamSTEPPS™ focuses on specific skills supporting team performance principles, including training requirements, behavioral methods, human factors, and cultural change designed to improve quality and patient safety.
Teamwork concepts are introduced that provide specific tools and strategies for improving communication and teamwork, reducing chance of error, and providing safer patient care.
TeamSTEPPS™ is an evidence-based framework leveraging 25 years of research that has been accumulated on teams and team performance in diverse areas (e.g., aviation, the military, nuclear power, healthcare, business and industry). TeamSTEPPS™ has evolved from research in other high-risk fields such as aviation; however, in healthcare, a high-risk, high-stakes environment exists in which poor performance may lead to serious consequences or death. TeamSTEPPS™ is ultimately designed to optimize team performance across the healthcare delivery system.