Why Invest in TeamSTEPPS?

• Cost of TeamSTEPPS is minimal compared to savings

• Annual cost is approximately 98,000 lives and $17-29 billion

• Errors can be reduced by changes to the health care system; specifically by providing interdisciplinary team training

Reference: Kohn LT, Corrigan, JM, Donaldson, MS. Eds. To err is human: Building a safer health system. Washington, DC: Committee on Quality of Health Care in American, Institute of Medicine, National Academy Press, 2000.

Slide Notes:

In 1999, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) estimated the annual cost of preventable medical errors in US hospitals to be 98,000 in lives and $17-29 billion every year.

[Note: Add additional cost information, if available, from your organization to make this slide more powerful.

Consider: Cost of one lawsuit vs. implementation of TeamSTEPPS; recent data on the cost or number of medical errors within your organization. Consider reviewing a variety of sources including adverse event and near miss reports, root cause analyses or failure modes and effects analyses, and unit or site specific process and outcome measures (patient flow, hospital -acquired infection rates, preventable deaths, etc.)]

The cost required to implement TeamSTEPPS is minimal compared to the cost of medical errors.

The IOM concluded that medical errors could be significantly reduced through fundamental changes in our national health care system. One key recommendation was that health care organizations should establish “interdisciplinary team training programs for providers that incorporate proven methods of team training.”

Reference: Kohn LT, Corrigan, JM, Donaldson, MS. Eds. To err is human: Building a safer health system. Washington, DC: Committee on Quality of Health Care in American, Institute of Medicine, National Academy Press, 2000.