HTVI: Healthcare Team Vitality Instrument

Submitted by National Center... on Oct 9, 2013 - 3:42pm CDT

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The Healthcare Team Vitality Instrument (HTVI) was developed and revised to assess team collaboration and patient safety, with a specific emphasis on team vitality. The shorter version was developed to assess the impact of interventions on team vitality.

The revised HTVI 10-item tool with a 5-point scale is used to assess health care team functioning. The tool has 5 subscales: support structures, engagement/empowerment, patient care transition and communication. The revised 10-item HTVI is a useful tool for assessing effects of improvement projects or other innovations for frontline healthcare workers.

This instrument is accessible through the Institute for Healthcare Improvement website. Registration on the site is required, but free.

Reference	Upenieks, V. V., Lee, E. A., Flanagan, M. E., and Doebbeling, B. N. (2010). Healthcare Team Vitality Instrument (HTVI): Developing a tool assessing healthcare team functioning. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 66(1), 168-76. PLEASE NOTE: Only those with paid subscriptions to the Wiley Online Library may access the full text of this copyright-protected article. Contact your institutional library or the publisher for details.
Tool Description	The revised HTVI 10-item tool with a 5-point scale is used to assess health care team functioning. The tool has 5 subscales: support structures, engagement/empowerment, patient care transition and communication. The revised 10-item HTVI is a useful tool for assessing effects of improvement projects or other innovations for frontline healthcare workers (Upenieks et al., 2010).
Country	United States
Setting	Hospital
Professions	Phase 1 and 2: Medicine, Nursing, Respiratory Therapy, Physical Therapy, Assistive personnel (e.g. certified nursing assistants), Health Adminstration and other Health Professions
Sample	439 healthcare providers
Subscale(s) & Psychometrics	support structures	Factor analysis accounted for 58% of variation
	engagement and empowerment	Factor analysis accounted for 58% of variation
	patient care transitions	Factor analysis accounted for 58% of variation
	team communication	Factor analysis accounted for 58% of variation
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