Data for: Effect of using a cognitive aid on content and feasibility of debriefings of simulated emergencies

Background
Adverse events in patient care are often caused by failures in teamwork. Simulation training and its debriefing can contribute to improving teamwork and thus patient care. When conducting debriefings, there are several design factors that can potentially influence learning outcomes. This study examines the use of a cognitive aid to help structure the content of debriefings and compares it with debriefings that are merely roughly structured. In addition, the feasibility of the debriefing, the satisfaction of the participants and their teamwork during the training are investigated.
Methods
In a simulated night shift, seven teams of four to five medical students (n=32) took part in a total of six cases that simulated common situations in an emergency medicine environment and received a debriefing on their teamwork after each case, either in the intervention condition with the help of the TeamTAG tool – a cognitive aid focusing on selected teamwork principles from Crisis Resource...