Team performance observation tool team structure assembles team assigns or identifies team members roles and responsibilities holds team members accountable includes patients and families as part of the team communication provides brief clear specific and timely information seeks information from all available sources. Teamstepps is a teamwork system developed jointly by the department of defense dod and the agency for healthcare research and quality ahrq to improve institutional collaboration and communication relating to patient safety. Team strategies and tools to enhance performance and patient safety teamsteppstm is a systematic approach developed by the department of defense dod and the agency for healthcare research and quality ahrq to integrate teamwork into practice it is designed to improve the quality safety and the efficiency of health care. Teamstepps 20 pocket guide team strategies tools to enhance performance and patient safety package of 10 agency publisher department of health and human services hhs. 6 barriers to team performance 16 2 mins 7 patient safety movement team training 17 19 5 mins 8 the teamstepps framework 20 22 6 mins 9 characteristics of high performing teams 23 24 3 mins 10 evidence that teamstepps works 25 3 mins 11 applying teamstepps exercise 26 5 mins introduction