Patient Safety Depends on Teamwork. Call us today at 678-369-6317.	The TeamSTEPPS™ Approach: Higher Quality, Safer Patient Care. The goal of TeamSTEPPS is to produce highly effective medical teams that optimize the use of information, people, and resources to achieve the best clinical outcomes for their patients. TeamSTEPPS is scientifically rooted in over 20 years of research and lessons learned from the application of teamwork principles in High-Reliability Organizations (HROs). Human factors research has shown that even highly skilled, motivated professionals are vulnerable to error due to inherent human limitations. HROs, such as those found in military operations, aviation, community emergency response services, and nuclear power industries, have learned that teams of individuals, who communicate effectively and back each other up, compensate for individual fallibility. This dramatically reduces the consequences of inevitable human error, resulting in enhanced safety and improved performance. TeamSTEPPS is an evidence-based teamwork system aimed at optimizing patient outcomes by improving communication and other teamwork skills among healthcare professionals. It is designed to improve quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare; offering a powerful solution to improving patient safety within your organization. TeamSTEPPS was developed by the Department of Defense (DoD) Patient Safety Program, in collaboration with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).