Establishing an Interdisciplinary Patient Care Team

McHugh, Michele; West, Phyllis; Assatly, Christine; Duprat, Laura J.; Howard, Linda; Niloff, Jonathan M.; Waldo, Karen; Wandel, Jane Corrigan; Clifford, Joyce C.

doi:10.1097/00005110-199604000-00009

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“…When interdisciplinary teams work well together, there is an increase of positive and measurable patient outcomes. Such teams design practices which integrate communication among members so that when these strategies are consistently practiced by team members, there are positive outcomes for practitioners and patients [2][3][4] .…”

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Educating nursing students in team conflict communication

Hartman

Crume

2014

JNEP

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Interdisciplinary health care teams are pivotal in creating and organizing the comprehensive care and treatment of patients. Health care teams providing comprehensive services create an integrative approach that focuses on open communication among members. One challenge when communicating in teams is recognizing and understanding the potential for conflict. Awareness of conflict and an understanding of communication behaviors leading to more competent conflict management will create higher quality team performance. Increasing communication competence leads to more cooperative sharing of information and provides the opportunity for practiced decision-making. Understanding the team process can be strengthened by educating future health care workers, especially nursing students. In doing so, nursing students will learn and practice how to manage team conflict. To create an educational curriculum in conflict processes and management, it is necessary to understand conceptions about the conflict process. As a result, curriculum design is based on needs identified from the research. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to examine individual perceptions that current nursing students have about conflict, strategies individuals use for conflict resolution, and what communication strategies are perceived as being competent for health care team conflict resolution. Based in social learning theory, the final outcome is to understand expectations about team conflict behaviors to create a framework to design educational programs in conflict management for nursing programs.

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Educating nursing students in team conflict communication

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Crume

2014

JNEP

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“…It is now increasingly common for healthcare organizations to employ interdisciplinary teams for more comprehensive diagnosis and treatment of patients as in other contemporary organizations (Cott, 1998). In line with other settings (Applebaum & Batt, 1994;Hill, 1982), research within healthcare organizations suggested that team-based working leads to enhanced equity, efficiency, and clinical quality in healthcare settings, for instance improved overall care (Cooke, 1997) and coordination of care (McHugh et al, 1996) for patients, and decreased length of patients' hospital stay (Wieland, Kramer, Waite, & Rubenstein, 1996). In addition to patient outcomes, team-based working is also related to reduced healthcare costs (Eggert, Zimmer, Hall, & Friedman, 1991).…”

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Team-based working and employee well-being: A cross-cultural comparison of United Kingdom and Hong Kong health services

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Dawson

2011

European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology

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“…This kind of practice culture in healthcare organizations or hospitals establishes the validity and reliability of the construction process of PCN and the generalizability of our research findings. There are also studies in current literature where researchers consider patient log book as a medium that facilitates collaboration among the hospital staff .…”

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Mapping and modeling of physician collaboration network

Uddin

Hamra

Hossain

2013

Statistics in Medicine

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Effective provisioning of healthcare services during patient hospitalization requires collaboration involving a set of interdependent complex tasks, which needs to be carried out in a synergistic manner. Improved patients' outcome during and after hospitalization has been attributed to how effective different health services provisioning groups carry out their tasks in a coordinated manner. Previous studies have documented the underlying relationships between collaboration among physicians on the effective outcome in delivering health services for improved patient outcomes. However, there are very few systematic empirical studies with a focus on the effect of collaboration networks among healthcare professionals and patients' medical condition. On the basis of the fact that collaboration evolves among physicians when they visit a common hospitalized patient, in this study, we first propose an approach to map collaboration network among physicians from their visiting information to patients. We termed this network as physician collaboration network (PCN). Then, we use exponential random graph (ERG) models to explore the microlevel network structures of PCNs and their impact on hospitalization cost and hospital readmission rate. ERG models are probabilistic models that are presented by locally determined explanatory variables and can effectively identify structural properties of networks such as PCN. It simplifies a complex structure down to a combination of basic parameters such as 2-star, 3-star, and triangle. By applying our proposed mapping approach and ERG modeling technique to the electronic health insurance claims dataset of a very large Australian health insurance organization, we construct and model PCNs. We notice that the 2-star (subset of 3 nodes in which 1 node is connected to each of the other 2 nodes) parameter of ERG has significant impact on hospitalization cost. Further, we identify that triangle (subset of 3 nodes in which each node is connected to the rest 2 nodes), alternative k-star (subset of k nodes in which 1 node is connected to each of other k - 1 nodes), and alternative k - 2 path (subset of k nodes in which, between a specific pair of nodes, there exists k - 2 paths of length 2) parameters of ERG have impact on the hospital readmission rate. Our findings can have implications for healthcare administrators or managers who could potentially improve the practice cultures in their organizations by following these outcomes.

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Establishing an Interdisciplinary Patient Care Team

Cited by 18 publications

References 9 publications

Educating nursing students in team conflict communication

Educating nursing students in team conflict communication

Team-based working and employee well-being: A cross-cultural comparison of United Kingdom and Hong Kong health services

Mapping and modeling of physician collaboration network

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