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A scoping review of approaches for measuring 'interdependent' collaborative performances
Stefanie S Sebok-Syer1, Jennifer M Shaw2, Farah Asghar3
1Emergency Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Medical Education
|April 7, 2021
Summary
Measuring interdependence in medical education is crucial but current methods are scarce and scattered. This review highlights the need for better, combined approaches to assess team performance in healthcare settings.
Area of Science:
- Medical Education
- Healthcare Team Performance
- Interpersonal Dynamics
Background:
- Current medical education assessment often overlooks team dynamics, focusing on individuals or the group as a whole.
- Effective patient care relies on collaboration, necessitating valid measures of interdependence among healthcare professionals.
- A consistent approach to measuring performance within healthcare teams is currently lacking in medical education.
Purpose of the Study:
- To identify and review existing methodologies for measuring interdependence within teams.
- To address the gap in assessing collaborative performance in medical education settings.
Main Methods:
- A scoping review following Arksey & O'Malley's methodology, updated from 2018 to 2020.
- Comprehensive literature search across five databases (>12,000 citations), followed by independent screening of titles, abstracts, and full texts.
- Data extraction from 27 included articles and key informant interviews to ensure comprehensive interpretation.
Main Results:
- The review identified 27 articles, predominantly empirical (18) and quantitative (18), spanning various disciplines and contexts.
- Only two articles originated from the field of Medical Education, indicating a significant gap.
- Interdependence was conceptualized variously (e.g., collaboration synergy, degree centrality, synchrony) using descriptive and inferential methods.
Conclusions:
- Existing efforts to measure interdependence are limited, fragmented across disciplines, and suffer from inconsistent terminology.
- There is a clear need for further research into measurement techniques for interdependence in medical education.
- Future studies should focus on combining multiple approaches to effectively capture team interdependence in healthcare.
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