Assessment of Nontechnical Skills During Resuscitation: Validation in the Italian Version of the TEAM.

Abstract

Summary statement: Nontechnical skills (hereinafter referred to as NTS), such as task management, leadership, situational awareness, communication, and decision making contribute to safe and efficient team performance. The importance during cardiopulmonary resuscitation is being increasingly emphasized. We carried out the intercultural adaptation of the TEAM score in Italian and to evaluate the reliability and validity of the resulting Italian version ( i -TEAM). A forward-backward translation was made with the author called i -TEAM. Psychometric properties of the i -TEAM score were evaluated, including acceptability, construct validity, and interrater reliability. We divided the participants into 3 groups based on their experience, and we verified if there was a correlation between the final score NTS of i -TEAM and the groups. The Cronbach coefficient was 0.91 for the Total i -TEAM score. The descriptive statistics showed that there was no correlation between NTS score and experience (group). Our results show that i -TEAM has psychometric properties similar to the original score.