Methods of debriefing include verbal feedback or video-assisted verbal discussion that allows reflection-on-action and should immediately follow the simulation exercise to assist the students in assessing their performance.
Focus groups with cognitive debriefing included 24 children and adolescents and 28 parents.
The debriefing included information on the intervention they had undergone and responding any open questions from the participants.
Working together, VRT and SES discussed the error descriptions from the video-recorded scenarios in conjunction with the additional evidence derived from the scenarios (such as direct quotes, body language and other non-verbal clues) and debriefs (including direct quotes and other paralinguistic clues such as laughter), until agreement on categorisation was reached.
Finally, a debriefing summary, including all participant interviews, and a final debriefing decisions grid were sent to the developer for comments.
Once the email interviews were completed, debriefing information, including further information and relevant support services, were provided.
To ensure that this study used a method similar to the one used in the original European study, a focus group and cognitive debriefing manual, including interview guidelines, was prepared.
For example, a number of Veterans Health Administration hospitals instituted mandatory medical team training for all surgical teams, which required briefing and debriefing and included checklists as an integral part of the intervention, 39 and reported significant reductions in surgical mortality compared with control hospitals.
In order to assess the impact of the program on the detection of latent safety threats all debriefing sessions included the question "Do you feel that specific system-based factors had an impact on your (or the teams) performance?" Feedback forms after the training session and after real events also prompted participants to consider latent safety threats and document possible solutions.
Debriefing notes included comments about the focus group process and the significance of data 2. Listening to the tape and transcribing the content of the tape 3. Checking the content of the tape with the observer noting and considering any non-verbal behavior.
