“…The relationship between patient-safety culture and teamwork has been studied quite extensively in the most complex of hospital environments, critical care units, and other clinical environments to help determine if this relationship improves patient outcomes and impacts staff satisfaction (and safety) [7]. Although differences exist between critical care units in terms of housestaff training versus no housestaff, private versus public, closed versus open "workflow architecture," intensivist versus non-intensivist staffed, and cardiac versus surgical versus neurological versus medical units, team-based approaches within these units have both enhanced perceptions of safety and correlated with beneficial clinical outcomes, staff satisfaction, and staff retention [7,13].…”