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The Human Simulation and Patient Safety
Center is a joint project of the School of Medicine,
the School of Nursing, and the Department of Anesthesiology
at Duke University. The Center is directed by Jeffrey Taekman,
M.D. who is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and the
Assistant Dean for Educational Technology within the School
of Medicine. The lab is committed to advancing the state-of-the-art
in medical education and educational technologies. |
News and Events
HSPSC GSK Patient Safety Day Success!
March 6, 2007 was designated as GSK Patient Safety Day. On this day over 500 students from the Duke and UNC Schools of Medicine and Nursing came together to learn about patient safety. The day-long health care team training activity included interactive team training methods such as simulation and role play. This grant, led by Dr. Dzau of Duke University Health System and Dr. Roper of the University of North Carolina Health Care System, was made possible by GlaxoSmithKline. This was the culmination of a year-long planning process conducted by multidisciplinary teams from both universities. The lessons learned are now being integrated into the second year of the program
Taekman and Wright receive AHRQ Funding
Jeffrey Taekman and Melanie Wright received a 2-year $291,248 award
from the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality entitled Virtual Health Care
Environments Versus Traditional Interactive Team Training. The project
compares a three-dimensional network virtual reality simulation
with interactive team training to demonstrate how high-technology
simulations can contribute to teaching safe behaviors.
Taekman and Wright receive TATRC Funding
Jeffrey Taekman and Melanie Wright received a 1-year $249,530 award
from the Telemedicine
and Advanced Technologies Research Center, a division of the
United States Army Medical Research & Materiel Command (USAMRMC),
to conduct a study entitled “3DiTeams: Gaming Environment
for Training Healthcare Team Coordination Skills”.
Taekman appointed to new ASA Simulation Committee
Jeff Taekman was appointed to a two-year term on the American Society
of Anesthesiologists Committee
on Simulation Education.
Melanie Wright receives an NIH Independent Scientist
Award
Melanie Wright was recently awarded an NIH Independent Scientist
Award by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, titled
"Information Management in the Perioperative Environment". This
is a 5-year award beginning 8/1/2006 with total costs of $480,000.
The independent scientist award provides support for newly independent
scientists who can demonstrate a need for a period of intensive
research focus. This award is intended to foster the development
of outstanding scientists and enable them to expand their potential
to make significant contributions to their field of research.
Dr. Wright's research plan involves the use of a human centered
design process to improve the design of perioperative information
displays to support anesthesia monitoring and crisis management
support. [more...]
Using high fidelity patient simulation to evaluate
clinical research trial design
The Simulation Center, in collaboration with the Department of
Anesthesiology, the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI), and
the Global Perioperative Research Organization (GPRO), has published
an article describing the use of high fidelity patient simulation
to evaluate clinical trial design in Contemporary
Clinical Trials.
DURHAM, N.C. – Computer-controlled simulated patients can
improve the design of clinical trials before any real patients are
even enrolled, Duke University Medical Center researchers have found.
Their new finding follows an earlier
Duke study that such simulated patients can improve the performance
of clinical trial coordinators. Such patient simulators are basically
lifelike computer-controlled mannequins that can mimic the physiological
responses of living patients to procedures. [more...]
Simulation Center wins APSF Research Grant and
Ellison C. Pierce, Jr. Education Award
The Human Simulation and Patient Safety Center and the Department
of Anesthesiology received a grant from the Anesthesia
Patient Safety Foundation to study objective measures of performance
in anesthesia care. The research team includes Melanie Wright, PI,
Jeffrey Taekman, Co-PI, Jonathan Mark, Mark Stafford-Smith, Gene
Hobbs, Barbara Phillips-Bute, and Bryan Andregg. The team will compare
objective measures of anesthesia care performance with respect to
their sensitivity to provider experience and simulated anesthesia
case difficulty. The objective measures will include eye scan behavior
and responses to situation awareness probes and will be compared
to more commonly used measures such as observer ratings based on
checklists. [more...]
NINDS/ORI Grant to Study Errors in Clinical
Research
Jeffrey Taekman, M.D., along with co-investigators, Melanie Wright,
Ph.D., and Mark Stafford-Smith, M.D., received a two-year, $267,415
grant from the
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and
the Office
of Research Integrity. These funds will help conduct his research
project entitled "Defining
the Learning Curve in Research Trials". The goal of this
study is to first define a taxonomy to categorize and quantify clinical
research error rates in a reproducible fashion. The taxonomy will
then be applied to define baseline error rates and the learning
curve in a recently completed NIH funded multi-center clinical trial.
Clinical Trial Coordinators Benefit from
Simulation Training
DURHAM, N.C. – Duke University Medical Center researchers
have gathered evidence that training clinical trial coordinators
on computer-controlled simulated patients before the beginning of
a trial could reduce the potential risks to real patients.
The researchers said their findings indicate that the use of human
simulators provides a key element of effective learning –
interactivity – that traditional training programs can lack.
For this reason, they argue that human simulation training should
be an integral part of any complex clinical trial. MORE
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Director
Jeffrey Taekman, MD (cv)
Associate Director
Sharon Hawks, CRNA
Director of Research
Senior Human Factors Engineer
Melanie Wright, PhD (cv)
Technician/Coordinator
Gene Hobbs, CHT
Human Factors Engineer
Noa Segall, PhD
Staff Assistant
Sheryl Madden
Advisory Committee
Ed Buckley, MD
Jonathan Mark, MD
J. Victor Nadler, PhD
Mark Newman, MD
Barbara Turner, RN, DNSc, FAAN
Facilitators
James Benonis, MD
Bob Blessing, MS
Charles S. Brudney, MD
Peter Dwane, MD
John Eck, MD
Ellen Flanagan, MD PhD
Lou Hodgins, MD
Stuart Grant, MD
Katherine Grichnik, MD
Nancy Knudsen, MD
John Keifer, MD
Cathy Lineberger, MD
Jonathan Mark, MD
Eugene Moretti, MD
Meredith Muncy, CRNA, MS
Adeyemi Olufolabi, MD
Susan Promes, MD
Becky Schroeder, MD
Bret Stolp, MD, PhD
Jim Temo, CRNA, MSN, MBA
Resident Facilitators
Andrew Matisoff, M.D.
Christina Reiter, M.D.
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