Sustaining Teamwork Behaviors Through Reinforcement of TeamSTEPPS Principles.

Background: Teamwork training improves short-term teamwork behaviors. However, improvements are often not sustained.

Question/purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the extent to which teamwork reinforcement activities for orthopedic surgery teams lead to sustained teamwork behaviors.

Clinical Communities at Johns Hopkins Medicine: An Emerging Approach to Quality Improvement.

Background: Clinical communities are an emerging approach to quality improvement (QI) to which several large-scale projects have attributed some success. In 2011 the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality established clinical communities as a core strategy to connect frontline providers from six different hospitals to improve quality of care, patient safety, and value across the health system. CLINICAL COMMUNITIES: Fourteen clinical communities that presented great opportunity for improvement were established.