Development of an Attitudes Toward Health Care Teams Scale
The authors describe the development and psychometric testing across three study phases of an Attitudes Toward Health Care Teams Scale. The measure contains two subscales: Quality of Care/Process (14 items) and Physician Centrality (6 items). The Quality of Care/Process subscale measures team members' perceptions of the quality of care delivered by health care teams and the quality of teamwork to accomplish this. The Physician Centrality subscale measures team members' attitudes toward physicians' authority in teams and their control over information about patients.
USA: Focus on interprofessional practice, education, and research
This article provides an overview of major interprofessional health care, education and research initiatives in the USA in the past fifty years, beginning with a short introduction that places the discussion into a conceptual and historical perspective and ending with some considerations for the future of interprofessional care in the USA.
Group think theory and research: Implications for decision making in geriatric health care teams
The team approach to geriatric care does not automatically result in appropriate decision making with regard to elderly patients with multiple chronic problems and complicated, overlapping needs. In this article, Janis's (1972, 1982) group‐think theory and tests of facets of the theory are examined. A modified theory is then applied to geriatric health care teams using a case scenario. Suggestions for minimizing the conditions that lead to groupthink and the resultant poor decisions are made.
Conceptual and methodological problems in studying the effects of interdisciplinary geriatric teams
Despite the frequent claims of the superiority of interdisciplinary teams over more usual care patterns, systematic studies of the effectiveness of geriatric interdisciplinary teams are rare. Illustrated by a review of recent studies are the difficult conceptual and methodological problems encountered by investigators. Such problems include those of basic research design, construct validity, populations targeted, and outcomes measured. Finally, future research directions are suggested.
Collegiality in interdisciplinary health teams: Its measurement and its effects
Interaction during four to seven meetings of four interdisciplinary health care teams was videotaped and coded for amount of interaction initiated and received by doctor, nurses, and nutritionists in each team. Process categories such as “asks opinion,” “gives information,” and “gives order,” were also coded for each participant in each meeting. A model of collegial interaction was developed, and the teams were compared with the model.
The interprofessional healthcare team:Leadership and Development
The Interprofessional Health Care Team: Leadership and Development
explores theoretical concepts of leadership in an interdisciplinary health
care environment and provides practical examples of these concepts
from the perspective of health care scholars, scientists, faculty, and
health administration professionals. This valuable resource will help
healthcare students and professionals to be prepared for future
collaboration with those of other related disciplines in order to develop
Educational Experiences- Introduction
This paper was originally published in the Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Interdisciplinary Health Team Care Conference, which took place September 10-12, 1987 at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. It is reproduced here with the permission of the author.
Assessing the Validity of an Index of Team Development
This paper was originally published in the Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Interdisciplinary Health Team Care Conference, which took place September 10-12, 1987 at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. It is reproduced here with the permission of the authors.
Leadership and Conflict- The Failure of Participatory Democracy on Rehabilitation Teams
This paper was originally published in the Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Interdisciplinary Health Team Care Conference, which took place September 10-12, 1987 at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. It is reproduced here with the permission of the authors.
National Center Journal Club with Dr. Jill Thistlethwaite
Fulbright scholar Dr. Jill Thistlethwaite will discuss competency-based education and its impact on interprofessional education in a free webinar on November 18.
