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

17 systematic, scoping, and narrative reviews published between 2012 and 2024 were synthesized in this umbrella review. The work, authored by Yukun Zhang, synthesizes review-level evidence on non-technical skills assessment tools and training approaches across healthcare. It specifically examines their implications for emergency department practice, with 88% of the included reviews originating from high-income countries.

Use Cases

• Identify validated assessment tools like T-NOTECHS and TEAM for evaluating team behaviors in clinical settings.
• Inform the design of simulation-based training programs based on evidence for improving process performance.
• Analyze the transferability of non-technical skills frameworks to emergency department contexts.
• Support literature reviews on healthcare team performance and safety culture.

Strengths

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

Limitations

• The primary data file is a 11.9 KB DOCX document, suggesting a limited scope focused on the review manuscript rather than raw data.
• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; the document's content must be inspected after download.
• The evidence base is noted to be fragmented, with direct evidence for effects on patient outcomes in routine ED care remaining limited.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Yukun Zhang

Collection Method

Systematic search and structured narrative synthesis of existing review literature.

Time Range

Reviews published between 2012 and 2024, searched from inception to February 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-28 04:29:12

Geography

88% of included reviews originated from high-income countries; specific geography is not detailed.