Peer Debriefing Versus Instructor Debriefing for Interprofessional Simulation Based Education

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Crisis Resource Management
• Interventions: Other: Expert instructor debriefing; Other: Peer-led debriefing

• Registration Number: NCT01067378
• Lead Sponsor: Unity Health Toronto

Brief Summary

Crisis management is important for operating room practice and non-technical skills are acknowledged as key to ensure patient safety in these situations. Unfortunately, it can be difficult to find instructors with appropriate experience. A peer-led team debriefing is led by the team it self rather than an external expert instructor but remains a reflective process. Incorporating peer-led debriefing compared to expert-led debriefing may increase access to an interprofessional crisis resource management course using simulation.

The goals of the study are to observe the effect of an interprofessional peer-led team debriefing in the change in performance of non-technical skills of team performance and to compare it with the "gold standard" of expert-led debriefing on the performance of non-technical skills during a simulated operating room crisis.

The investigators hypothesize that interprofessional peer-led debriefing will improve the performance of non-technical skills of the team during simulated intraoperative crisis management and that this improvement will be equivalent to the "gold standard" expert-led debriefing.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2010-02-01
• Study First Submitted QC: 2010-02-10
• Study First Posted: 2010-02-11
• Study Start: 2010-06
• Primary Completion: 2012-07
• Study Completion: 2012-07
• Status Verified: 2015-11
• Last Update Submitted: 2015-11-16
• Last Update Posted: 2015-11-17

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 120

Inclusion Criteria

• Operating room (OR) nurses from St. Michael's Hospital and University of Toronto Anesthesia and Surgery Residents/Fellows

Exclusion Criteria

• OR nurses from other hospitals and Residents/Fellows from other programs

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Expert instructor debriefing	Expert instructor debriefing	Expert instructor debriefing
Peer-led debriefing	Peer-led debriefing	Peer-led debriefing

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Performance of non-technical skills of the teams.	1 year

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Allan Waters' Family Patient Simulation Centre; 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada