Teamwork and Collaboration

Safety and quality of health care depend on collaborative efforts of multiprofessional and multidisciplinary teams of care providers. Team research in aviation and the military has produced a wealth of knowledge in terms of concepts and intervention strategies to improve team performance. Research on collaborative work in health care in the past 20 years has uncovered unique characteristics and requirements of teams in hospitals and other health care settings and has provided early assessment of the utility of the theoretical concepts, methodologies, and interventions developed outside health care. In this chapter, we review a set of concepts that have been used in characterizing teams in health care and in improving teamwork. These concepts include the organizational shell to capture the sociotechnical environment in which teams reside as well as nontechnical skills, team leadership, team mental models, and so on. We will review a number of leading interventions to enhance team performance, such as teamw...

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