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TeamSTEPPS Team Assessment Questionnaire and Team Performance Observation Tool (TAQ-TPOT)
“Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety” (TeamSTEPPS™) is a systematic approach to training health care professionals. It was developed by the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to improve the quality, safety, and the efficiency of health care. Although largely known as a curriculum, the Team STEPPS program has several assessment tools relevant for quality improvement. The TAQ self-report questionnaire and the TPOT...
Communication Assessment Tool- Team (CAT-T)
The CAT-T is a patient satisfaction survey focused on the quality of communication received from a medical team during a visit to the emergency department. "Communication" refers to the interactions between members of the health care team and the patient (not interactions among health care team members). "Communication skills" was considered a single unitary construct undelying all of the items. The CAT-T represents a replication of a previously studied instrument, "...
Index of Interdisciplinary Collaboration (IIC)
The IIC is designed to assess social workers’ perception of the quality of collaborative exchanges in interdisciplinary team settings. The tool breaks down interdisciplinary collaboration into five sub-dimensions: interdependence, newly created professional activities, collective ownership of goals, reflection on process, and flexibility. The 42-item self-report questionnaire is meant to assess whether individuals are experiencing the positive interprofessional interactions measured in the tool...
Communication and Teamwork Skills (CATS) Assessment
The CATS was designed to measure communication and team skills of health care providers in an onsite (in situ) tool. Specifically, the tool measures situational awareness, coordination, communication, and cooperation. Observers rate 21 behaviors based on crisis resource management behavioral-based markers. A preliminary study observed healthcare workers in gastric bypass surgery, interdisciplinary rounds, and cesarean sections. The results are meant to provide rapid cycle feedback from a...
Patient's Insights and Views Observing Teams Questionnaire (PIVOT)
The PIVOT is a 16-item, self-report survey that asks patients to evaluate team behaviors (e.g., interactions, communications, coordination), as experienced in a recent visit to an emergency department. Items were developed through a line of research that included exploratory interviews with patients and caregivers to identify areas for item development, a web-based survey of health care providers and patient advocates to structure the survey, and cognitive interviewing with patients and...
Observational Teamwork Assessment for Surgery (OTAS)
This observational tool was designed to assess the non-technical skills of surgical teams in real time in the operating theatre. It was based on the patient safety literature which found that lack of interpersonal skills (e.g., communication, teamwork, leadership) and cognitive skills (e.g., decision making, situational awareness, mental readiness) contributed to adverse patient complications and errors. Trained raters use the one-page form to observe and score three subteams separately (...
Individual Teamwork Observation and Feedback Tool (iTOFT)
The iTOFT is a work-based assessment tool of interprofessional teamwork behaviors. It was created by a consortium of seven universities on three continents as a way to provide meaningful feedback to students and novice professionals. It was developed through a literature review of the existing teamwork assessment tools, a discussion of accreditation standards for the health professions, Delphi consultation, and field-testing with an emphasis on its feasibility and acceptability for formative...
Perception of Interprofessional Collaboration Model Questionnaire (PINCOM-Q)
The PINCOM-Q is designed to assess perceptions of interprofessional collaboration on the individual, group, and organizational levels for professionals in the domain of mental health care for children and adolescents. Specifically, the tool measures individual motivation, role expectations, personality style, and professional power; group leadership, coping, communication, and social support; and organizational culture, goal/aims, domain, and environment in a 48-item self-report questionnaire....
Healthcare Team Vitality Instrument (HTVI)
The HTVI was designed to provide healthcare staff with a way to measure team "vitality" in hospital settings. Specifically, the self-report tool measures the individual’s perceptions of environmental support structures, engagement and empowerment, patient care transitions, and team communication. It was designed to be administered to a wide variety of licensed and unlicensed staff. The reference listed below describes a study which sought to refine and shorten the original 20-item...
University of the West of England Entry Level Interprofessional Questionnaire (UWE-ELIQ)
The UWE-ELIQ is the first of three surveys designed to assess changes in student attitudes and perceptions over the course of their training and entry into practice. The ELIQ survey is administered at the beginning of schooling. The UWE Interim Professional Questionnaire (IIE) is administered during the second year of study, and the UWE Final Interprofessional Questionnaire (FIQ) is administered after qualification and again after 9 months of professional practice. All three surveys collect...