Purpose: The Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (TeamSTEPPS) program is known to improve team and clinical performance, but the relationship to psychological stress has not been clarified. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate team performance, clinical performance and psychological stress simultaneously in a simulation-based training combined with or without the TeamSTEPPS program.
Design/methodology/approach: This randomized, controlled, prospective pilot study was performed to reveal TeamSTEPPS impact on psychological stress.