Background
Inter-professional teamwork is key for patient safety and team training is an effective strategy to improve patient outcome. In-situ simulation is a relatively new strategy with emerging efficacy, but best practices for the design, delivery and implementation have yet to be evaluated....
Victor Montori, MD, MSc, a Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, is pioneering the concept of shared decision making. Dr. Montori, who was a special interest keynote speaker at IHI’s 24th Annual National Forum, explains the nature and practice of shared decision making...
OBJECTIVE: To assess the perceptions of physicians and nurses working full-time in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) regarding interdisciplinary communication.
METHOD: A cross-sectional survey of all medical personnel working full-time in the ICU...
INTRODUCTION: The Rural Interprofessional Programme Emergency Retreat (RIPPER) is an educational programme collaboratively developed and evaluated by an interprofessional team from Schools within Faculty of Health Science (FHS), University of Tasmania (UTAS), Australia. The aims of RIPPER are to...
The interprofessional team has indeed become almost a standard feature in the delivery of professional services. A logical rationale has been advanced for reliance on interprofessional teamwork; the arguments usually stress the inevitable interdependence among professionals concerned with human...