Ambulance crews train to cut medication mistakes
NCT ID NCT05244928
First seen Jun 24, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study tested whether a team training program called TeamSTEPPS could improve how ambulance crews give medications and work together. Researchers looked at medication errors, teamwork, and safety culture before and after the training. The goal is to find ways to make ambulance care safer for patients.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety® (TeamSTEPPS) training program
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could show that team training reduces medication errors and improves patient safety in ambulance services.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, completed study with 131 participants. Results may not apply to all ambulance services, and the training may not lead to lasting changes.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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131 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Jan 2022
- Finished
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Jan 2024
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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Children (under 18), adults (18 to 64) and older adults (65 and over)
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion criteria pre-study * Ambulance professionals employed in the ambulance services Exclusion criteria pre-study * Under 18 years of age Inclusion criteria study 1 and 3 * EPJs for patients who are transported or treated within the assigned areas * Patient which receives medication (Oxygen, or clear fluid intravenously, by inhalation, intramuscularly, intraosseous, per os, sublingually, or intranasally) Exclusion criteria study 1 and 3 * Missing and/or incomplete data. Inclusion criteria study 2 * Ambulance professionals employed in the ambulance services Exclusion criteria study 2 * Under 18 years of age * Student and apprentices Inclusion criteria study 4 and 5 * Ambulance professionals and apprentices participating in the "Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety®" intervention Exclusion criteria study 4 and 5 * Ambulance professionals on long-term leave * Under 18 years of age
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Innlandet Hospital Trust
Brumunddal, 2381, Norway
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