Team performance during postsurgical patient handovers in paediatric care.

Postsurgical handover of paediatric patients from operating rooms to intensive care units is a critical moment. This process is susceptible to errors and inefficiencies particularly if poor teamwork in this multidisciplinary and ad hoc collaboration occurs. Through combining provider- and observer-rated team performance, we aimed to determine agreement levels on team performance and associations with mental demands, disruptions, and stress.

Structured performance assessment in three pediatric emergency scenarios: a validation study.

Objective: To develop and validate 3 performance evaluation checklists (PECs) for systematic performance assessment in 3 clinical scenarios: cardiopulmonary arrest, dyspnea with oxygen desaturation after intubation, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).

Study Design: The 3 PECs were developed using an integrative approach and used to rate 50 training sessions in a simulator environment by different raters. Construct validity was tested by correlating the checklist scores with external constructs (ie, global rating, team experience level, and time to action).