Interprofessional intensive care unit team interactions and medical crises: A qualitative study
Research has suggested that interprofessional collaboration could improve patient outcomes in the intensive care unit (ICU). Maintaining optimal interprofessional interactions in a setting where unpredictable medical crises occur periodically is however challenging. Our study aimed to investigate the perceptions of ICU health care professionals regarding how acute medical crises affect their team interactions. We conducted 25 semi-structured interviews of ICU nurses, staff physicians, and respiratory therapists.
The impact of space and time on interprofessional teamwork in Canadian primary care settings: Implications for health care reform
AIM: This paper explores the impact of space and time on interprofessional teamwork in three primary health care centres and the implications for Canadian and other primary health care reform.
Nursing emotion work and interprofessional collaboration in general internal medicine wards: A qualitative study
AIM: This paper is a report of a study to examine nursing emotion work and interprofessional collaboration in order to understand and improve collaborative nursing practice.
Catalyzing and sustaining communities of collaboration around interprofessional care: An evaluation of four educational programs
This paper describes the “Catalyzing and Sustaining Communities of collaboration around interprofessional care” project, funded by Canadian Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, to encourage health care workers in Ontario to work collaboratively to improve job satisfaction, achieve efficiencies within the health care system and enhance the delivery of patient care.
Interprofessional information work: Innovations in the use of the chart on internal medicine teams
An abundance of evidence suggests that communication in interprofessional healthcare teams is a complex endeavour. Even relatively simple communication processes involving information work - the gathering, storage, retrieval and discussion of patient information - may be fraught with pitfalls, and yet teams manage to conduct their daily information work, often with a high degree of effectiveness.
Structuring Communication Relationships for Interprofessional Teamwork (SCRIPT): A cluster randomized controlled trial
BACKGROUND: Despite a burgeoning interest in using interprofessional approaches to promote effective collaboration in health care, systematic reviews find scant evidence of benefit. This protocol describes the first cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) to design and evaluate an intervention intended to improve interprofessional collaborative communication and patient-centred care.
Interprofessional care co-ordinators: the benefits and tensions associated with a new role in UK acute health care
While more flexible models of service delivery are being introduced in UK health and social care, little is known about the impact of new roles, particularly support worker roles, on the work of existing practitioners. This action research study aimed to explore the impact of one such new role, that of interprofessional care co-ordinators (IPCCs). The general (internal) medical service of a UK hospital uses IPCCs to provide support to the interprofessional team and, in doing so, promote efficiency of acute bed use.
'Real life' clinical learning on an interprofessional training ward
This paper describes the multi-method evaluation of an interprofessional training ward placement for medical, nursing, occupational therapy and physiotherapy students. Unique in the UK, and an extension of pioneering work in Sweden (Wahlström et al. 1997, Wahlstroöm & Sandén 1998), this interprofessional clinical placement allowed senior pre-qualifying students, under the supervision of practitioners, to plan and deliver interprofessional care for a group of orthopaedic and rheumatology patients.
The Business Case for Implementing Rapid Response Teams
This presentation addresses the financial impact of implementing Rapid Response Teams. The presentation was given by William J. Ward, Jr., MBA, of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health on May 17, 2006, for VHA Inc.
