Improving quality and safety in rural acute care – redefining teamwork and patient centeredness in distributed teams
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Project type
angewandte Forschung
Project start
01.09.2019
Project end
31.08.2023
Project status
abgeschlossen
Project contact
Project manager
Creutzfeldt, Johan
Dubois, Hanna
Contributors
Description
Abstract
Rural health care systems face several challenges, such as great geographic distances between health care facilities and the professionals involved in patient care, lower volume of emergencies and less training opportunities than in urban hospitals. To provide high quality care in rural remote settings, telemedicine is a critical tool and probably the most commonly used eHealth service.
There is reason to believe that simulation based teamwork training has a great potential to improve the preparedness also of rural health care teams. However, there are large knowledge gaps regarding the effect of geographically distributed acute care teams on both patient involvement and on how teamwork can be optimised and trained. Therefore, this project aims to develop recommendations for creating safer and more patient centered rural acute care.
The aims of the project are to:
- investigate how distributed teamwork affects patient participation compared to co-located teamwork, and to identify means for active patient participation supporting safer and more patient centered care in rural emergency settings
- study how distributed teamwork in rural settings affects fundamental teamwork concepts
- develop a framework for telemedicine supported teamwork in rural settings that can be used for development, training and research
- explore how simulation-based teamwork training is perceived by the participants when using telemedicine to tailor such training to teamwork in the rural setting
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Strategic action fields FHNW
School
Hochschule für Angewandte Psychologie FHNW
Institute
Direktion APS
Financed by
The Kamprad Family Foundation for Entrepreneurship, Research & Charity
Löf regionernas ömsesidiga försäkringsbolag
Löf regionernas ömsesidiga försäkringsbolag
Project partner
Umeå University
Karolinska Institutet
Glesbygdsmedicinskt Centrum
Charles Darwin University
Sophiahemmet högskola
Karolinska Institutet
Glesbygdsmedicinskt Centrum
Charles Darwin University
Sophiahemmet högskola