TRAINING OF NON-TECHNICAL SKILLS IN INTENSIVE CARE UNITS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS
Quality management. Quality Improvement. Patient safety. Intensive Care Units. Systematic review.
Non-technical skills consist of social, personal and cognitive skills that can influence safety and efficiency in performing tasks. Studies show that in intensive care units, most security incidents have low performance in non-technical skills as the root cause, with training programs being an alternative to solving the problem. Thus, this work aimed to evaluate the effect of implementing non-technical skills programs in intensive care units, both on the knowledge and attitudes of professionals, as well as on patient outcomes and organizational results. For this, a systematic review of the literature of original articles was carried out in the following databases / portals: Pubmed / Medline, Scopus, Web of Science, Science Direct, EMBASE and PsycINFO. Quasi-experimental studies with a control group, with interrupted time series or with follow-up and randomized and non-randomized clinical trials were included. Two pairs of reviewers independently selected and evaluated the papers, and in case of disagreements, a fifth reviewer was consulted. The review followed the recommendations of the Peferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-analyzes (PRISMA) protocol. It is expected that the work will contribute to the adoption of effective and valid strategies, contributing to patient safety in intensive care units.