Knowledge integration, teamwork and performance in health care

Abstract

This is the first study that explored knowledge integration in medical rehabilitation teams and its relation to patient-centered teamwork and team performance.

A Concept Analysis of Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Mental Healthcare

“…The fragmentation of health care services constitutes a challenge to the collaboration process [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]. The decentralised and fragmented nature of health care systems brings about communication gaps and obstructs shared decision-making between health providers, affecting the continuity of care [21].…”

“…Both healthcare providers and clients in the fragmented healthcare services express dissatisfaction and frustration springing from the fact that they are not able to work collaboratively in improving the care [21]. The fragmentation calls for effective collaboration among healthcare professionals of different disciplines which leads to integration and continuity of care [10]. …”

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“…Understanding different discipline-specific roles and knowledge cultivates a culture of collaboration [8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. Members of different disciplines are equipped with specific knowledge and competencies within their own discipline [8].…”

“…Share decision making is an important attribute to achieve effective IDC [8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. Shared decision making is a collaborative process in which healthcare professionals make health related decisions together with the clients.…”

“…Improved quality of care and patient outcome IDC improves quality of patient care and patient outcomes [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]. IDC exploits the full potientialof different disciplines, resulting in clinical improvement which better benefits the clients [32][33][34].…”