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Jeffrey Marc Taekman

Jeffrey Marc Taekman

Professor Emeritus of Anesthesiology
Anesthesiology, Neuroanesthesia
jeffrey.taekman@duke.edu
Box 3094 Med Ctr, Durham, NC 27710
8 Searle Center Drive, 5015 Trent Semans Center, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Publications

Using Virtual Reality Simulation Environments to Assess Competence for Emergency Medicine Learners.

Journal Article Acad Emerg Med · February 2018 Immersive learning environments that use virtual simulation (VS) technology are increasingly relevant as medical learners train in an environment of restricted clinical training hours and a heightened focus on patient safety. We conducted a consensus proce ... Full text Link to item Cite

A Novel Multiplayer Screen-Based Simulation Experience for African Learners Improved Confidence in Management of Postpartum Hemorrhage.

Journal Article Front Public Health · 2017 INTRODUCTION: Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) remains a global challenge, affecting thirteen million women each year. In addition, PPH is a leading cause of maternal mortality in Asia and Africa. In the U.S.A., care of critically ill patients is often practice ... Full text Link to item Cite

Leveraging Health Care Simulation Technology for Human Factors Research: Closing the Gap Between Lab and Bedside.

Journal Article Hum Factors · November 2016 OBJECTIVE: We describe health care simulation, designed primarily for training, and provide examples of how human factors experts can collaborate with health care professionals and simulationists-experts in the design and implementation of simulation-to us ... Full text Link to item Cite

Toward Designing Information Display to Support Critical Care. A Qualitative Contextual Evaluation and Visioning Effort.

Journal Article Appl Clin Inform · October 5, 2016 OBJECTIVES: Electronic health information overload makes it difficult for providers to quickly find and interpret information to support care decisions. The purpose of this study was to better understand how clinicians use information in critical care to s ... Full text Link to item Cite

Operating Room-to-ICU Patient Handovers: A Multidisciplinary Human-Centered Design Approach.

Journal Article Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf · September 2016 BACKGROUND: Patient handovers (handoffs) following surgery have often been characterized by poor teamwork, unclear procedures, unstructured processes, and distractions. A study was conducted to apply a human-centered approach to the redesign of operating r ... Full text Link to item Cite

Simulation in Neurosurgery-A Brief Review and Commentary.

Journal Article World Neurosurg · May 2016 Neurosurgery is one of the most technically demanding and liable of all medical professionals. More than 75% of neurosurgical errors are deemed as preventable and technical in nature. Yet in a specialty that requires such high level of technical expertise, ... Full text Link to item Cite

Twitter-Augmented Journal Club: Educational Engagement and Experience So Far.

Journal Article A A Case Rep · April 15, 2016 Social media is a nascent medical educational technology. The benefits of Twitter include (1) easy adoption; (2) access to experts, peers, and patients across the globe; (3) 24/7 connectivity; (4) creation of virtual, education-based communities using hash ... Full text Link to item Cite

Interprofessional education for personalized medicine through technology-based learning.

Journal Article Per Med · June 2015 The delivery of personalized medicine utilizing genetic and genomic technologies is anticipated to involve many medical specialties. Interprofessional education will be key to the delivery of personalized medicine in order to reduce disjointed or uncoordin ... Full text Link to item Cite

Patient load effects on response time to critical arrhythmias in cardiac telemetry: a randomized trial.

Journal Article Crit Care Med · May 2015 OBJECTIVES: Remotely monitored patients may be at risk for a delayed response to critical arrhythmias if the telemetry watchers who monitor them are subject to an excessive patient load. There are no guidelines or studies regarding the appropriate number o ... Full text Link to item Cite

Standardized assessment for evaluation of team skills: validity and feasibility.

Journal Article Simul Healthc · October 2013 Featured Publication INTRODUCTION: The authors developed a Standardized Assessment for Evaluation of Team Skills (SAFE-TeamS) in which actors portray health care team members in simulated challenging teamwork scenarios. Participants are scored on scenario-specific ideal behavi ... Full text Link to item Cite

Handovers from the OR to the ICU.

Journal Article Int Anesthesiol Clin · 2013 Full text Link to item Cite

A Cognitive Modeling Approach to Decision Support Tool Design for Anesthesia Provider Crisis Management.

Journal Article Int J Hum Comput Interact · 2013 Prior research has revealed existing operating room (OR) patient monitors to provide limited support for prompt and accurate decision making by anesthesia providers during crises. Decision support tools (DSTs) developed for this purpose typically alert the ... Full text Link to item Cite

Fire in the operating room.

Journal Article Simul Healthc · December 2011 Full text Link to item Cite

The "Simulation Roulette" game.

Journal Article Simul Healthc · August 2011 INTRODUCTION: "Simulation Roulette" is a new method of "on-the-fly" simulation scenario creation that incorporates a game-like approach to critical scenarios and emphasizes prescenario preparation. We designed it to complement our traditional anesthesia si ... Full text Link to item Cite

Teamwork training with nursing and medical students: does the method matter? Results of an interinstitutional, interdisciplinary collaboration.

Journal Article Qual Saf Health Care · December 2010 Featured Publication OBJECTIVES: The authors conducted a randomised controlled trial of four pedagogical methods commonly used to deliver teamwork training and measured the effects of each method on the acquisition of student teamwork knowledge, skills, and attitudes. METHODS: ... Full text Link to item Cite

Departures from the protocol during conduct of a clinical trial: a pattern from the data record consistent with a learning curve.

Journal Article Qual Saf Health Care · October 2010 Featured Publication OBJECTIVE: Recognition of learning curves in medical skill acquisition has enhanced patient safety through improved training techniques. Clinical trials research has not been similarly scrutinised. The VALsartan In Acute myocardial iNfarcTion, a large mult ... Full text Link to item Cite

Virtual environments in healthcare: immersion, disruption, and flow.

Journal Article Int Anesthesiol Clin · 2010 Featured Publication Full text Link to item Cite

Qualitative and task analytic methods to support comprehensible intelligent system design

Journal Article Isda 2009 9th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications · December 1, 2009 We argue that a critical component of designing comprehensible intelligent systems is finding the right applications for intelligence and designing intelligent solutions toward those applications. While we do not refute the value of good attention to later ... Full text Cite

Assessing teamwork in medical education and practice: relating behavioural teamwork ratings and clinical performance.

Journal Article Med Teach · January 2009 Featured Publication BACKGROUND: Problems with communication and team coordination are frequently linked to adverse events in medicine. However, there is little experimental evidence to support a relationship between observer ratings of teamwork skills and objective measures o ... Full text Link to item Cite

New educational technology.

Journal Article Int Anesthesiol Clin · 2008 Featured Publication Full text Link to item Cite

Effective management of sarin exposure: Simulation case scenario

Journal Article Simulation in Healthcare · 2008 Full text Cite

Effective management of sarin exposure: simulation case scenario.

Journal Article Simul Healthc · 2008 Biological and chemical warfare training is often overlooked in residency programs, but is nonetheless an extremely important part of the curriculum and should be implemented before allowing residents to graduate. The purpose of this case is twofold: (1) e ... Full text Link to item Cite

Coding and visualizing eye tracking data in simulated anesthesia care

Journal Article Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society · December 1, 2007 Eye tracking can be a valuable tool for collecting data about perception and attention in task performance, but its use in human factors research has been limited. This may be due to the fact that the coding and visualization of eye tracking data can be di ... Cite

Human patient simulation as a research tool in cognitive engineering

Journal Article Conference Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Systems Man and Cybernetics · December 1, 2007 This paper discusses the use of human patient simulators in medical cognitive engineering research. We present different types of simulators and their application in the design and evaluation of medical devices and procedures, as part of cognitive task ana ... Full text Cite

Human patient simulation as a research tool in cognitive engineering

Conference 2007 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS, MAN AND CYBERNETICS, VOLS 1-8 · 2007 Cite

Time of day effects on the incidence of anesthetic adverse events.

Journal Article Qual Saf Health Care · August 2006 Featured Publication BACKGROUND: We hypothesized that time of day of surgery would influence the incidence of anesthetic adverse events (AEs). METHODS: Clinical observations reported in a quality improvement database were categorized into different AEs that reflected (1) error ... Full text Link to item Cite

Piloting team training at Duke University health system

Journal Article Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society · January 1, 2006 Good team communication and coordination are critical to the safe delivery of health care. Efforts at training students, clinicians, and support staff in team coordination skills are beginning to be implemented across the country. However, there is limited ... Full text Cite

The use of high-fidelity human patient simulation as an evaluative tool in the development of clinical research protocols and procedures.

Journal Article Contemp Clin Trials · December 2005 Featured Publication Errors in clinical research can be costly, in terms of patient safety, data integrity, and data collection. Data inaccuracy in early subjects of a clinical study may be associated with problems in the design of the protocol, procedures, and data collection ... Full text Link to item Cite

Effects of time of day and surgery duration on adverse events in anaesthesia

Journal Article Healthcare Systems Ergonomics and Patient Safety: Human Factor, a Bridge Between Care and Cure - Proceedings of the International Conference HEPS 2005 · 2005 Featured Publication While the effects of fatigue on clinical performance are measurable, these decrements in performance have not been clearly linked to adverse clinical outcomes for patients. This research evaluated existing peri-operative data from 90, 159 surgical procedur ... Cite

Objective measures of situation awareness in a simulated medical environment.

Journal Article Qual Saf Health Care · October 2004 Featured Publication One major limitation in the use of human patient simulators is a lack of objective, validated measures of human performance. Objective measures are necessary if simulators are to be used to evaluate the skills and training of medical practitioners and team ... Full text Link to item Cite

Preliminary report on the use of high-fidelity simulation in the training of study coordinators conducting a clinical research protocol.

Journal Article Anesth Analg · August 2004 Featured Publication Training of health care research personnel is a critical component of quality assurance in clinical trials. Interactivity (such as simulation) is desirable compared with traditional methods of teaching. We hypothesized that the addition of an interactive s ... Full text Link to item Cite

Time management and the role of a simulation coordinator

Conference ANESTHESIA AND ANALGESIA · May 1, 2004 Link to item Cite

Promoting trainee experience: From the OR to the simulator

Conference ANESTHESIA AND ANALGESIA · May 1, 2004 Link to item Cite

Medical education over the Internet.

Journal Article Acad Med · May 1996 Featured Publication Full text Link to item Cite

The Penn State Anesthesia Electronic Case Conference.

Journal Article Anesthesiology · October 1995 Featured Publication Full text Link to item Cite