Palliative Care Interdisciplinary Team Effectiveness: Building an Effective Team and Maintaining Team Health (FR454)

Bringing interdisciplinary and multicultural team building to health care education: the downstate team-building initiative.

PURPOSE To evaluate the impact of the Downstate Team-Building Initiative (DTBI), a model multicultural and interdisciplinary health care team-building program for health professions students. METHOD A total of 65 students representing seven health disciplines participated in DTBI's first three years (one cohort per year since implementation). During the 18-session curriculum, students self-ev...

Team working: palliative care as a model of interdisciplinary practice.

Teamwork is an integral part of the philosophy of palliative care. Cross-functional, interdisciplinary teams offer benefits to patients, practitioners and specialist areas of care. Leadership of teams can be difficult. With shared responsibilities, more than the sum of the competencies of team members can be offered. In palliative care the final decision-maker is the patient.

The palliative care interdisciplinary team: where is the community pharmacist?

Palliative care emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to care to improve quality of life and relieve symptoms. Palliative care is provided in many ways; in hospices, hospital units, and the community. However, the greatest proportion of palliative care is in the community. In hospice and palliative care units in hospitals, clinical pharmacists are part of the interdisciplinary team and work ...

A team-building model for team-based care.

Building the eye care team

Eye care services are people intensive. They require the right people (competence), in the right numbers (capacity), in the right mix (team) with the right resources and processes (enabling conditions) to ensure effective and sustainable delivery of patient care. To be effective, the team should have the right mix of ophthalmologists, ophthalmic assistants, administrative staff and support staf...