Non-Technical Skills in Acute Care: An Umbrella Review of Assessment and Training

17 systematic, scoping, and narrative reviews published between 2012 and 2024 are synthesized in this umbrella review. The work, authored by Yukun Zhang, aggregates evidence from 2,229 identified records on non-technical skills assessment and training in healthcare. It was last updated on April 28, 2026, and focuses on implications for emergency department practice.

Use Cases

• Identify widely used assessment frameworks like Crisis Resource Management and T-NOTECHS based on the review's synthesis.
• Analyze the evidence for simulation-based training outcomes on team behaviors and process performance mentioned in the results.
• Evaluate the transferability of non-technical skills evidence to emergency department contexts based on the review's structured narrative synthesis.
• Inform the design of future multicentre or longitudinal research studies based on the conclusions and research gaps identified.

Strengths

• The review protocol was registered with PROSPERO (CRD420251008161), indicating a structured methodological approach.
• Synthesizes evidence from 17 reviews identified from a systematic search of 2,229 records across multiple databases.
• Explicitly considers the relevance and transferability of findings to emergency department contexts.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The 14.3 KB file size suggests the dataset is a summary document, not the underlying review data.
• 88% of the included reviews originated from high-income countries, which may limit generalizability.

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by Yukun Zhang.

Collection Method

Systematic umbrella review of existing systematic, scoping, and narrative reviews.

Time Range

Reviews included were published between 2012 and 2024.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-28 04:29:08; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Reviews predominantly from high-income countries; specific geography is not detailed.